Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - Cinematic Orchestra (HD)

Man With A Movie Camera - Dziga Vertov, 1929 Soundtrack composed by Jason Swinscoe and performed by the British jazz and electronic outfit The Cinematic Orchestra. Originally made for the Porto 2000 Film Festival. Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 Soviet silent documentary film, directed by Dziga Vertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov’s wife Yelizaveta Svilova. Kaufman also appears as the eponymous Man of the film. Vertov’s feature film presents urban life in Moscow, Kyiv and Odesa during the late-1920s. It has no actors. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have “characters“, they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film. Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, employed or developed, such as multiple exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, reversed footage, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals (at one point it features a split-screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles). The only other video on youtube with this soundtrack was poor quality, enjoy.