Kino-Eye (Kino-Glaz/Life Off-Guard) (U.S.S.R, 1924);
Kino-Pravda No. 23 (Radio Pravda) (U.S.S.R., 1925)

March 31, 2012 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

Directed by Dziga Vertov

Kino-Eye is also a brilliant demonstration of Vertov's radical film theories: his rejection of narrative structure, his sense of ordinary life as the stuff of cinematic art. Vertov and his cameraman, brother Mikhail Kaufman, employed every shooting method then known, from ultra-high speed to microcinematography and multiple exposure to create this fascinating look at life in the young Soviet state.

Cinematographer: Mikhail Kaufman.

35mm, b/w, silent w/ Russian intertitles and live English translation, 20 fps, 78 mins.

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Print courtesy of the Austrian Film Museum

Kino-Pravda No. 23 (Radio Pravda) (U.S.S.R., 1925)

Directed by Dziga Vertov

Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, we are nonetheless treated to Aleksandr Bushkin’s time-lapse animation and his brilliant sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, “a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant’s log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves”—a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia’s distant peasantry. 35mm, b/w, silent w/ Russian intertitles and live English translation, 18 fps, 23 min.

Musical accompaniment provided by Robert Israel.

Part of:

Kino-Eye: The Revolutionary Cinema of Dziga Vertov

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Kino-Eye (Kino-Glaz/Life Off-Guard) (U.S.S.R, 1924); Kino-Pravda No. 23 (Radio Pravda) (U.S.S.R., 1925)

Kino-Pravda No. 23 (Radio Pravda) (U.S.S.R., 1925)

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Kino-Eye (Kino-Glaz/Life Off-Guard) (U.S.S.R, 1924);
Kino-Pravda No. 23 (Radio Pravda) (U.S.S.R., 1925)