Radical Soviet filmmaker
A large-scale exhibition dedicated to the revolutionary Soviet filmmaker, the creator of Man With a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, is underway in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
ґMOMA`s retrospective is said to be the most comprehensive ever assembled in the United States, featuring an extensive "factory of facts" - a selection of Vertov`s silent films, sound features, and related work by collaborators and rivals
"I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see," the genius director was quoted as saying.
Dziga Vertov, born Denis Kaufman, made his name as the most innovative Soviet filmmaker, whose forward-looking experiments with image and sound once produced an impact of a bombshell, influencing the greatest directors of the world, from Jean-Luc Godard to Stanley Kubrick.
The exhibition - a much-needed, timely tribute to the director - opened with the US premiere of Man with a Movie Camera, Vertov?s 1929 mind-blowing chef d`oeuvre, which has stood the test of time, not losing even an inch of its universal appeal.
The avant-garde director once described it as "an experiment in the cinematic transmission of visual phenomena without the use of intertitles, without the help of a script, without the help of a theater, without actors, without sets?"
The film`s newly restored copy, in its original full-frame version, has been created by the EYE Institute Netherlands, and was presented with live musical accompaniment.
Earlier in March, a cutting-edge Russian magazine, Snob, organized an exclusive screening of the film for its readers in New York.
Keeping literally everyone on the edge of their seats, the groundbreaking Man with a Movie Camera left many film aficionados speechless, in awe for the incomprehensible mastery of its director.
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