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MANIFESTO'S IN FILM EN THEATER

MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA

Man with a Movie Camera

Attention viewers:

Without the help of Intertitles

Without the help of a story

Without the help of theatre

This experimental work aims at creating a truly international language

Author-supervisor experimenter

Dziga Vertov

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MANIFESTO'S IN FILM EN THEATER

Man with the Movie Camera:

A record in celluloid on 6 reels.

(An excerpt from the diary of a cameraman.)

This film presents an experiment in the cinematic communication of visible events. Without the aid of intertitles. (A film without intertitles.)

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MANIFESTO'S IN FILM EN THEATER

Without the aid of a scenario. (A film without a scenario.) Without the aid of theater. (A film without sets, actors, etc.)

This experimental work aims at creating a truly international absolute language of cinema based on its total separation from the language of theater and literature.

Author-supervisor of the experiment Dziga Vertov, Chief cameraman Mikhail Kaufman, Assistant editor Elizaveta Svilova

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