Film And Design 2: The Man With A Movie Camera
Soviet Union, 1928, 68 Minute Running Time
Language: Silent
Wednesday, May 14 - 7:00pm
Program 2: Urban/Avant Garde
The Man With a Movie Camera
The 1920s were years of tremendous energy and imagination in the arts, and this program will present a mix of abstract, dadaist and futurist short films, followed by the feature-length “city symphony” The Man with a Movie Camera, a triumph of visual design.
Preceded by the following short films:
Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21 (1921) and Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
Fernand Leger’s Ballet Mecanique (1924)
Viking Eggeling’s Symphonie Diagonale (1924)
DIRECTOR: Dziga Vertov
US Distributor: Kino International