One Sixth of the World (1926) by Dziga Vertov
Sunday, September 25, 1983, 7:30 pm
Dziga Vertov’s One Sixth of the World
Soviet Union, 1926, 60 min. Vertov, one of cinema’s great theorists and considered the father of the documentary film, made this short feature 2 years before his masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera. One Sixth of the World is a lyrical film poem, a “universal song” uniting, (through montage) present life in various regions of the U.S.S.R. and abroad. Divided into 6 parts contrasting the working conditions and economic systems of capitalism and communism, the film draws on exotic material shot by Vertov’s international band of roving cameramen, and employs the same extraordinary sense of montage development which characterized his later work.
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