A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s..

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Imagine a strip of nitrate racing past your eyes at twenty-four lies per second, each lie so earnest it forgets to fib. That is the paradox Vertov serves in Kino-pravda no. 1, a cinematic samovar boiling Bolshevik urgency with documentary residue. The title itself—cinema-truth—is a dare, a philosophical hand-grenade ...


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Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov
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" Imagine a strip of nitrate racing past your eyes at twenty-four lies per second, each lie so earnest it forgets to fib. That is the paradox Vertov serves in Kino-pravda no. 1, a cinematic samovar boiling Bolshevik urgency with documentary residue. The title itself—cinema-truth—is a dare, a philosophical hand-grenade lobbed at every melodrama that dared fake life inside painted sets while civil war scars still stank outside. We open on ice-choked canals: slate-gray water coughing up slabs like..."


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