Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov's manifesto-on-celluloid was made to argue that the camera alone — without actors, plot, intertitles, or studios — could produce a totally new kind of cinema. Almost a century later it still feels radical, especially when paired with the various modern scores composed for its re-releases.

• No actors, no script, no intertitles — pure cinematic experiment.
• Comprises 1,775 separate shots in 68 minutes.
• Voted greatest documentary of all time in Sight and Sound's 2014 poll.
• Filmed across Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa.
• Released on Blu-ray with multiple alternate scores including Cinematic Orchestra.

• "This experimental work has been made without the help of intertitles, without the help of a story, without the help of theatre."
• "The camera is the eye that sees and constructs."
• "Editing alone makes cinema."
• "All life is rhythm."
• "The machine builds the future."