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Man with a Movie Camera

Chelovek s kino-apparatom

audiovisual digital film film core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Dziga Vertov, director
  • Elizaveta Svilova, editor
  • Mikhail Kaufman, cinematographer

Canon Rationale

A central experimental and documentary film, included as a bounded watchable work for Soviet montage, city-symphony form, reflexive cinema, editing, and documentary theory.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 55.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Man with a Movie Camera'.
  • review essay: Senses of Cinema, '1929: Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov)'.

Audit Flags

version dependency

Completion unit: watch the film, noting silent-film score/version if applicable.

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