Thursday, 23 June 2011

Reflexive Documentary

File:Man with a movie camera.jpgMan With A Movie Camera

Man With A Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.


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, extreme close-ups and tracking shots.





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