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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The film begins with a date stamp flapping like a heron with a broken wing—21 June 1922—and already the calendar feels obsolete. In the emulsion’s shallow graves, we glimpse a Moscow that smells of wet iron and sour bread. Vertov’s lens does not observe; it pickpockets. A legless veteran slides across the frame on a w...
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Dziga Vertov
Eduardo Notari
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" The film begins with a date stamp flapping like a heron with a broken wing—21 June 1922—and already the calendar feels obsolete. In the emulsion’s shallow graves, we glimpse a Moscow that smells of wet iron and sour bread. Vertov’s lens does not observe; it pickpockets. A legless veteran slides across the frame on a wooden trolley, his palms drumming the cobblestones; the camera tilts down until his face fills the horizon, eyes hammered shut against the glare of a new world that has forgotten t..."
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