The Cinematic Orchestra-Man With A Movie Camera

Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929)

The British electronic/jazz outfit "The Cinematic Orchestra" created a soundtrack for this movie, released in 2003 as the "Man With a Movie Camera" album ...originally a silent film.Man with a Movie Camera, sometimes The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, Chelovek s kino-apparatom; Ukrainian: Людина з кіноапаратом, Liudyna z kinoaparatom)) is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film by Russian director Dziga Vertov.

Vertov's feature film, produced by the Ukrainian film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in Odessa and other Soviet cities. 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 cameraman of the title and the modern Soviet Union he discovers and presents in the film.

This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, animations and a self-reflexive style (at one point it features a split screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

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Music

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• Man with a Movie Camera
• Cinematic Orchestra
• 1929

[deltatangofoxtot]

You all seem as taken by this piece of history as I was when uploading. So glad to share!! Cutting edge in it's time, it had no sound...

[kamillcpn]

that was a piece of history for us !

[kil2gore]

The Cinematic Orchestra was commissioned to write a score for Polish director Dziga Vertov's 1929 documentary,"Man With A Movie Camera".

Man With A Movie Camera was essentially a piece of communist propaganda, yet contained editing techniques and superimposition that were radically innovative for the period. That repetition is reflected in the soundtrack

Thanks! Love this band!

[DashulyaM]

What's the song playing please? Thanks!

[dekada00]

Long live the USSR !!!!

[GuoKaiFeng]

So fucking good...

[IrMiMaPi]

!!!!!

this is incredible !

so modern

jump cuts, slow mo

unbelievable