Man With a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera
Dziga Vertov’s film, Man with a Movie Camera, is a unique way of viewing society in Soviet Union, 1929. It was almost as if Vertov was telling a story with his camera. The film has a strange sort of plotting that starts out as if it is a documentary about the work force. Beginning with a woman getting up in the morning, and then all the “husle and bustle” of the city, trains and street cars, people walking up and down the streets. He really seems to focus on the working class. He films a woman in a factory boxing cigarettes, and seems quite h...