A series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s..
Soviet Union
Vertov’s tenth bulletin is not a film; it is a Molotov made of nitrate, hurled through the stained-glass window of Tsarist memory. The streets it stalks are still coughing up horsehair and iconostasis dust; the lens, however, has already declared the religion of machines. We open on a Petrograd intersection where icic...
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Dziga Vertov
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" Vertov’s tenth bulletin is not a film; it is a Molotov made of nitrate, hurled through the stained-glass window of Tsarist memory. The streets it stalks are still coughing up horsehair and iconostasis dust; the lens, however, has already declared the religion of machines. We open on a Petrograd intersection where icicles hang like frozen exclamation points above a woman selling sunflower seeds from a newspaper cone. The camera does not observe—it inhales, guzzles, mainlines. A quick iris-in rev..."
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