Dziga VERTOV Дзига ВЕРТОВ Dziga VERTOV   USSR, 1924, 59 mn  Black and white, silent, documentary

Kino-Eye - Life Caught Unawares ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Киноглаз - Жизнь врасплох    Ciné-oeil - la vie à l’improviste / Kino-glaz  Kinoglaz - zhizn vrasplokh

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Advertised as a "cinema thing without script, without actors, without directors, without sets," Kino-Eye combines images planned or sought out by Vertov with images caught largely by accident. Kino-Eye captures two poles of Russian life: the "New" Russia (kids organized into Pioneer units; the Soviet Union's nopn-gendered, politicized equivalent of the Boy and Girl Scouts), and the "Old" Russia (drunken peasants, mental asylum patients, and black market dealers).
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Selected in the following festivals :

- Avant-gardes russes du Centre Pompidou, Paris (France), 2011

- Sarlat Film Festival, Sarlat (France), 2009

- Europalia Russia 2005, Brussels (Belgium), 2005

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