Kino-pravda no. 10

Summary

Vertov’s tenth bulletin rips the scab off 1922 Russia, stitching epileptic streetcar sparks, famine-gaunted faces, and the jubilant cadaver of a czar into a twenty-minute seizure of celluloid. Svilova’s scissor-hands splice birth and burial in the same breath while Kaufman’s camera, drunk on kerosene, somersaults from tram rails to Orthodox cupolas, hunting for a new proletarian god. Between grainy shots of bread queues and the electrified grin of a factory dynamo, the film confesses: history is being soldered together with soot, sweat, and a stubborn refusal to blink.

Synopsis

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