Man with a Movie Camera ( Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом ( Chelovek s kinoapparatom)

Man with a Movie Camera (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом (Chelovek s kinoapparatom) is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors by SovietRussian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova. Vertov s feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have characters, they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film. This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme closeups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and selfreflexive visuals (at one point