J 416 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 5: Bolsheviks, Viking Eggeling, Esfir Shub
Document Summary
Futurism-a movement sweeping through europe from the beginnings in italy and france and invading all the arts, gloried in. The bolshevik seizure of power allowed dziga vertov to become editor of the film weekly newsreel. After he created first feature length, history of the civil war. After famine, vertov saw the task of soviet films as a way to document socialist reality. Vertov said that the use of camera as a cinematic eye more perfect than the human eye for exploring the chaos of. 1928, 5 year plan collided with vertov"s documentary ideas. The man with a movie camera-presents daily life of soviet union. Superimposes and trick shots more evident as film progresses. Vertov continued to work and produce, but then settled on editing. Other editor: esfir shub, she made home movies of tsar nicolas 2. Thought of as a pictorial art which light was the medium. Abstract documentary experiments (hans richter and viking eggeling)
