"The Man with the Camera" by Dziga Vertov

Cale 2022-11-29 17:53:40

In the film, there is a scene where the eyes rotate, and the lens rotates with it. It's so cool. It's the practice of my own film eye theory, and I use the lens to capture some pictures that ordinary people usually ignore.

At the end of the film, Vertov used stop-motion animation to make people feel that the lens is alive. The lens, as a human eye, can transform life and create life. In the film, various shots are combined together, using montage The combination of the techniques makes me feel a kind of praise for the passion, and it really creates a new model, which is admirable.

Through this film, I have gained a lot, and it is worthy of the eyes of the film.

(1) The use of montage techniques

In Chapter 3-2, Vertov used a montage technique to edit divorce, marriage, birth and death together, giving people a sense of time travel, which made me feel very novel.

(2) The use of double exposure

had a profound impact on later generations

(3) Playing backwards and using slow motion

Use when photographing athletes jumping hurdles

(4) The use of self-reflection

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Extended Reading
  • Lilliana 2022-06-23 21:25:39

    Although I have been reluctant to break the convention of not giving full marks to documentaries, it is undeniable that this 1929 documentary left the audience with a Soviet style painting with its perfect cut shots and double exposure. The most impressive are the female workers packing cigarette boxes, the camera animation, and the scenes of marriage and divorce. Politics and policies are inadvertently revealed in the works, but they change the "faithfulness" of the documentary, thus presenting an art that does not match the era.

  • Bailee 2022-06-23 22:10:48

    Pure cinema, a film that reminds you why you love movies.