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    When comparing Ballad of a Solider directed by Grigoriy Chukhray with earlier works such as Battleship Potemkin by director Sergei M. Eisenstein and Man with a Movie Camera directed by Dziga Vertov, one should feel obligated to mention similarities in the story, theme, style and, technique, as well as their differences. Their execution of ideas as well as their artistic imprint forever changes how we view modern day cinema. Battleship Potemkin follows a crew of a naval ship, which has been mistreated

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    Dziga Vertov

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    In Dziga Vertov’s film Man with a Movie Camera we gain an understanding of the rapid change in the pace of life in Russian cities such as Kiev, Moscow, and Odessa. This is a shift from a slow, human-based life to a faster, machine-based life. This change is especially evident in scenes where we see the old and the new side by side. For example, at 20:52 in the film we see a horse-drawn carriage driving parallel to an automobile. While the speed of the people and the activities quickens, the video

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    Dziga Vertov

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    Dziga Vertov's “Man with a Movie Camera” presents the everyday urban activities of people from the Soviet Union. Since the documentary film has no story at all, it also does not have continuity of action. This 1929 documentary made use of montage where images were edited together without visible or apparent connection between shots. This documentary film is considered as one of the greatest films of all time. It has neither actors nor story. It basically follows a camera man and his views of the

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    Dziga Vertov

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    Dziga Vertov was a Soviet film theorist and director who coined the term kino-eye to refer to the style of filming everyday life. Similar to the Constructivists, he was hoping to create novyi byt, or a new everyday life in a socialist society that would not fetishize the object. And in doing so, Vertov wanted to include the proletariat in this new wave of film that was previously dominated by the bourgeoisie and their aesthetics. The proletarians did not understand bourgeois films, they were not

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    Man with a Movie Camera (1929), directed by Dziga Vertov, is a unique film. It has no actors nor story. It takes place over the span of one day and is a montage of the urban life in and around a Russian city. It follows an apparently avid (and brave considering the dangerous lengths he would go to in order to get the desired shot) camera man and his camera. It is largely about film techniques and the various processes required in making one. There are a wide array of interesting camera angles and

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    Did I Stutter Keiko, an everyday high school introvert with a kind heart and one overpowering disability, a speech impediment has an early start to his morning, arriving at school to get a warm cup of coffee in silence from the café across the road, approaching the café where not even a whisper of sound could be heard, he notices her, there she sat alone with a pen crushed between her teeth completely captivated by the book she was reading “The art of literature”, Elegant, smart and beautiful and

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    Vertov and Eisenstein are each convinced that their own vision of cinema is correct. Both are extremists in their own ways. How do their visions differ? What do they have in common? How are both of their visions of cinema "revolutionary?" Soviet cinema has a significant contribution to the world’s film history. The years after the October Revolution in 1917 bring many economic difficulties and political changes to the newly formed USSR, which also affected film production. The nationalization

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    Man with The Movie Camera: Shot Change constructs a New Perspective Avant Garde Film Midterm 11395 Question #4      Time was used by Vertov as an important factor in editing as well as in the daily lives of humans.      With editing he utilized the essence of time to his advantage. Vertov wanted a certain rhythm of cuts to exist in the movie. He desired a choppy effect. The cameras, themselves, were supposed to produce a rithym in movements, too

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    The Face Behind the Truth in Cinema

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    the truth is, we will always strive for the truth. The concept of truth is no stranger to film documentaries, and one filmmaker that certainty was aware of that was Dziga Vertov. During the 1920’s Vertov created a newsreel series to promote the concept of ‘Kinopravda” which translated to English mean “Film truth.” Unfortunately, Vertov was ahead of his time, and this concept disappeared along the filmmakers’ path. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that other filmmakers around the world once again recognized

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    Introduction Kony 2012 was a film produced Invisible Children which went viral overnight. The video gained 31 million views in a single day and since has gathered almost over 99 million view on YouTube. The campaign was a 30-minute video made by filmmaker and Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell can be considered a political documentary by traditional standards. The political documentary intended to persuade bystander viewers to hold certain beliefs about Kony, a leader of the rebel militia

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