Directed by Dziga Vertov
Among Vertov’s most radical works, the 23 newsreel issues of Kino-Pravda (1922-1925), presented in this series offer a rare chance to witness, as Yuri Tsivian wrote, “a time-lapse movie showing the growth of Soviet avant-garde cinema (born in 1922, not in 1924 as we are normally told).” In these first eight Kino-Pravdas, Vertov begins to play with then-novel film techniques, including dialectical editing, to transform “facts” into political statements.
35mm, b/w, silent w/ Russian intertitles and live English translation, 18fps, 78 min.
