Wednesday

Absolute Kinography and World Revolution

A screening and discussion of Dziga Vertov’s (1929) Man With a Movie Camera

Wednesday, May 26 2010
6:30PM to 8:30PM
Woodlawn Collaborative (6400 S Kimbark Ave.)

The Man With a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by famed Russian director Dziga Vertov. Drawing from the ferment of the international socialist revolutions of 1917 to 1923, Vertov invented a stunning array of cinematic techniques to try to capture the dynamism of his revolutionary epoch.

But over twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the extinguishing of utopian politics worldwide, how might Vertov’s masterpiece still capture the productive tension between political and aesthetic innovation?

Join us to discuss this and more following a free screening. For more information, contact Greg (gregg@uchicago.edu).

*FREE PIZZA AND DRINKS WILL BE SERVED*