Film Screening : Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

Seng Tee Lee, 6pm start

Join us for a unique film screening exploring early 20th century Russian film making.This avant-garde silent documentary was directed by Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife, Elizaveta Svilova. The film will be introduced by Dr Philip Cavendish, a Reader in Russian and Soviet Film Studies at UCL SSEES and Director of the CEELBAS Centre for Doctoral Training and the author of the book “The Men with the Movie Camera: the Poetics of Visual Style in Soviet Avant-garde Cinema of the 1920s”, published by Berghahn Books in 2013, while Dr Wojciech Janik, Area Specialist for the former Soviet Union and Poland at UCL SSEES Library will talk about the availability of Soviet and Russian movies on the Internet.

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