Monday, April 14 2025, 5 - 7pm 101 LeConte Hall The Soviet Union delivered the most experimental generation of filmmakers in cinematic history, innovation necessitated by a revolution that demanded a total rejection of bourgeois morality and convention. Between Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, documentary and narrative filmmaking evolved at a much-quickened pace. With this silent film we return to one of cinema's earliest--certainly its most innovative--artists: Vertov. Man with a Movie Camera eschews fairy tales and fantasy, preferring the social realism of true everyday life, aiming to create "an authentically international absolute language of cinema on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature." Filmed in the 1920’s in the Soviet Union, this film is in the public domain. Dr. Joseph Kellner, assistant professor of history, will deliver a brief introduction of the film and its themes before the screening. At UGA, he teaches courses on Russian and Soviet history and the Cold War.
