Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa

Coal, steel, crops - lots of marches. Removal of religion/church - replacement of religion by products, industrialisation, production. Black smoke changes to white in the process. Movement of machines, movement on the ground, underground, movement in the air. At the beginning, men praying, drinking, lying in the mud, at the end marching to military music without expression, moving like an steel ingot, armed with rifles and bayonets. From man-animal to a lifeless machine...

Another propoganda piece from Vertov. It doesn't live up to the promise of The Man with the Movie Camera, but it's reasonably engaging. The camera angles are bold and the editing is rhythmic (though sometimes too abrupt), which keeps things lively. More importantly, we see how Vertov embraced sound technology, utilizing music, sound effects and speech in ways both practical and avant-garde, diegetic and non-diegetic. Not essential viewing, but not bad.

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Entusiasmo estreava há 90 anos na Ucrânia. Não por acaso esse filme foi redescoberto pela galera avant garde dos anos 60 e inclusive restaurado pelo Kubelka, o experimentalismo entre o som e imagem aqui não tinha precedentes no mundo àquela época. BlurayRip no MakingOff.

The Man With a Movie Camera is a great movie, one of the best of all time indeed. Because it was over ideologies but this movie stuck in an ideology. I respect the performances, the reality of scenes and seeing an ordinary life of people of Soviet Union is unique. Also, have some very innovative scenes but it's Vertov so no surprise. However, communist point of view is so intense that it affect your view and your cinematic pleasure adversly. Because you lost in an ideologic narrative.

Not my favorite type of film these documentary style visual symphonies, but Dziga Vertov sometimes makes it work and this had some nice moments documenting the Sovjet world.