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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Vertov’s ninth bulletin from the revolutionary frontline arrives like a bomb wrapped in yesterday’s newspaper: twenty-two minutes of celluloid shrapnel that shred any lingering faith in the polite grammar of bourgeois storytelling. Forget your three-act ballets of rising tension and catharsis—this is cinema as steno...

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Dziga Vertov

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" Vertov’s ninth bulletin from the revolutionary frontline arrives like a bomb wrapped in yesterday’s newspaper: twenty-two minutes of celluloid shrapnel that shred any lingering faith in the polite grammar of bourgeois storytelling. Forget your three-act ballets of rising tension and catharsis—this is cinema as stenography of the cosmos, a breathless sprint through Petrograd’s synapses at the precise instant the NEP economy starts to sweat vodka and chromium. The reel opens on a signature Ver..."


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