Kinoglaz

A lot like Man with the Movie Camera -- the same enthusiasm for bold technique, as the camera explores one scene after another from its unique perspective. It's even more overtly political, however, and that's kind of a turn-off. Also, the backwards stuff gets old quick and the film as a whole is rough around the edges. But, this is one of Vertov's early films, and I guess he needed a few more years to perfect his style. I suppose it's pretty groundbreaking for 1924.

the focus on the lenin scouts is kind of pointless (possibly the reason it was commissioned?) but there's still a lot of great footage and plain insights into what life was like. some of the sequences are dreamlike in the way that vertov excels at...

Basically the culmination of Vertov's kino-pravda work, so it's often boring, sometimes intriguing, and always has his sense of ethic and experimentation to it. Probably have mentioned before how, when watching a silent at home rather than the cinema, if the soundtrack blows, I'll just mute and switch on the TG24 box set-- always seems to work. Kino-Glaz takes us back in time... the abattoir worker gathers up the cow's entrails on the edge of a blade... Haaamburger Laadyyyyy...