Ukrainian Cinema: Man With A Movie Camera

One of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era, Poland-born Dziga Vertov’s MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA utilizes rapid editing and innumerable other cinematic effects to create a work of amazing modernity and power.

This dawn-to-dusk view of urban Soviet life - primarily in Odesa on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea - shows people at work, at play, and at the machines that endlessly whirl to keep the metropolis alive. It was Vertov’s first full-length film, and it employs all the cinematic techniques at the director’s disposal - dissolves, split-screens, slow-motion, and freeze-frames - to produce a work that is as exhilarating as it is intellectually brilliant

Tickets for regular film presentations are $12, with Film Center members paying only $6 per ticket. Students with valid school ID pay $7, and SAIC students, staff, or faculty pay $5 for regular film presentations.

Ten percent of the ticket sales for all films in this series will be donated to Voices of Children, a Ukrainian-based non profit which provides art therapy for children–and is currently providing emergency psychological aid and assistance in the evacuation process to Ukrainian children and families affected by full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.