" Lines of resistance: Dziga Vertov and the twenties / edited and with an introduction by Yuri Tsivian.

Man with a Movie Camera (, Chelovek s kinopparatom ) — sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia — is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova.

David Abelevich Kaufman () ( 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954 ) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (, " spinning top ") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist.

It largely evolved from the works of directors like Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Jean Epstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, and Dziga Vertov and film theorists like Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer.

Dziga Vertov claimed in his 1924 manifesto, “ The Birth of Kino-Eye ” that “ the cinema-eye is cinema-truth .” To paraphrase Hilmar Hoffman, this means that in film, only what the camera ‘ sees ’ exists, and the viewer, lacking alternative perspectives, conventionally takes the image for reality.

Eisenstein's first film, Glumov's Diary ( for the theatre production Wiseman ), was also made in that same year with Dziga Vertov hired initially as an " instructor.

* Dziga Vertov's experimental 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera includes shots of trams ( at 10 and 42 minutes ).

The Soviet Union's robust film industry came out with its first sound features in December 1930: Dziga Vertov's nonfiction Entuziazm had an experimental, dialogueless soundtrack ; Abram Room's documentary Plan velikikh rabot ( The Plan of the Great Works ) had music and spoken voiceovers.

Dziga Vertof's avant-garde Russian film Man With a Movie Camera ( 1929 ) is almost entirely composed of jump cuts.

French left-wing political filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, under the collective Dziga Vertov Group, made a film depicting the trials in 1970 called Vladimir et Rosa.

Besides performing, Cora composed music for the National Film Board of Canada, choreographer Donna Uchizono ( for which he received a New York Dance and Performance Award in 1990 ), and a solo cello film score for Dziga Vertov's, Man with the Movie Camera, commissioned by the American Museum of the Moving Image.

The 1929 Russian film Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov featured nudity within the context of naturism.

Important Constructivists were very involved with cinema, with Mayakovsky acting in the film The Young Lady and the Hooligan ( 1919 ), Rodchenko's designs for the intertitles and animated sequences of Dziga Vertov's Kino Eye ( 1924 ), and Aleksandra Ekster designed the sets and costumes for the science fiction film Aelita ( 1924 ).

Dziga Vertov believed his concept of Kino-Glaz, or " Cine Eye " in English, would help contemporary man evolve from a flawed creature into a higher, more precise form.

Dziga Vertov's newsreel series Kino-Pravda, the best known of these, lasted from 1922 to 1925 and had a propagandistic bent ; Vertov used the series to promote socialist realism but also to experiment with cinema.

The films of Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, Alexander Dovzhenko, and Vsevolod Pudovkin were instrumental in providing an alternate model from that offered by classical Hollywood.

In 1968, Gorin and Godard founded the collective Dziga Vertov Group and together produced a series of overtly political films including Vent d ' est ( 1970 ), Tout va bien ( 1972 ), and Letter to Jane ( 1972 ).

The continental, or realist, tradition focused on humans within human-made environments, and included the so-called " city symphony " films such as Walter Ruttmann's Berlin, Symphony of a City ( of which Grierson noted in an article that Berlin represented what a documentary should not be ), Alberto Cavalcanti's Rien que les heures, and Dziga Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera.

Dziga Vertov was central to the Soviet Kino-Pravda ( literally, " cinematic truth ") newsreel series of the 1920s.

His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative which was active in the 1960s.

" Cine-Eye " is a montage method developed by Dziga Vertov which was first formulated in his work " WE: Variant of a Manifesto " in 1919.

I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see " Dziga was quoted as saying.

Dziga Vertov died of cancer in 1954, after surviving, unscathed, Stalin's purges.

The Dziga Vertov Group borrowed his name.

In 1962, the first Soviet monograph on Vertov was published, followed by another collection, ' Dziga Vertov: Articles, Diaries, Projects.

" Our Eyes, Spinning Like Propellers: Wheel of Life, Curve of Velocities, and Dziga Vertov's Theory of the Interval.

"' Peace between Man and Machine ': Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera.

" Evolution of style in the early work of Dziga Vertov.

Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film.

* Thomas Tode, Barbara Wurm, Austrian Film Museum eds. Dziga Vertov.

Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties.

* Dziga Vertov.

Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, University of California Press, 1995.

* Dziga Vertov.

* Dziga Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera DVD, audio commentary track by Yuri Tsivian.

Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.

The scholar Kenneth Billingsley found that Trumbo wrote The Daily Worker about films which he said communist influence in Hollywood had prevented from being made: among them were proposed adaptations of Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian works Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar, which described the rise of communism in Russia.

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" However, in these UN statements it was never made clear that it was only Iraq that was using chemical weapons, so it has been said that " the international community remained silent as Iraq used weapons of mass destruction against Iranian as well as Iraqi Kurds " and it is believed that the " United States prevented the UN from condemning Iraq ".

He said that his religious beliefs prevented him from fighting in the Vietnam War.

Gellar has said that she was willing to appear in the episode, but scheduling conflicts and family problems prevented it.

Roosevelt said in 1914: " I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding ; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done.

He said terrorism was a form of warfare that could not be prevented by laws and punishments but by the aggressor's certainty that the war was impossible to win.

Kissinger said those " clashing perspectives " prevented any real bargaining and explained:

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This episode was said to upset King George, who had been prevented by illness from attending the event.

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He noted the increasing strength of American capitalism, and the country's " tremendous reserve power "; a strength and power which he said prevented Communist revolution.

It is said that the same reason prevented his election to the Académie française, though he was a member of the Academie des Inscriptions.