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| Living Russia, or Man With a Movie Camera (1929) compresses into sixty eight minutes Dziga Vertov's sense that each life is a frame of a movie connecting all of us. | |||
| Vertov's primary means of expressing that thought was thematic montage—the joining of shots not primarily to narrate a story but to suggest what unites them. | |||
| Above, a contemporary sound track accompanies twenty eight seconds—eighty six shots—of the originally silent movie. | |||
Thematic Montage |
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You Did It Then: Editors necessarily leave their fingerprints on the negative—it goes with seeing life as footage to cut. Channeling Vertov’s editor (and wife) Yelizaveta Svilova, assemble shots of a contemporary streetcar, pedestrians, and traffic into a thematic montage that expresses your own sense of reality. Add effects as freely Vertov and Svilova did. Step-by-step instructions, shots, and a sound track you can use are in button below.
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