IlkhomPanorama

As part of the IlkhomPanorama project Ilkhom Theater is organizing the watching of “Man with a Movie Camera” by Soviet director Dziga Vertov, on April 10.
Man with a Movie Camera is a silent experimental documentary film, released in 1929.
There is a camera shooting people, places, and objects in the frame. The camera here is the actor of shooting process itself.

It takes place everywhere in the air, underground, in the thick of things … It is the eye, that is watching, fixing the slightest nuances, without giving an assessment, without following the script. It simply looks into the world and sees everything!
Vertov’s feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. 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.
The film is silent, although its display in cinemas was accompanied by live music. In the modern edition music is embedded in the film.
In the British Film Institute’s 2012 Sight & Sound poll, however, film critics voted it the eighth greatest film ever made, and the work was later named the best documentary of all time in the same magazine.
The picture was filmed at the end of NEP period in the early years of Soviet Union, when bold experiments in art and culture were not punished by persecution and repression.

For modern public, it might be interesting to see how people of the early XX century reacted on intrusion of the camera in their life and compare these fillings with constant presence of camera in our daily routine.

We start at 7.00 p.m..
Entrance is free.