Brno, February 27, 2014
Dr. Lars Karl
Imperial visions, utopias and dystopias:
Soviet cinema in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Dziga Vertov,
Soviet Film Maker (1896-1954)
'Enthusiasm' poster (1930)
Note sound-emitting record (upper right), symbol of power of the spoken word
Bringing the camera to the unscripted action,
a Vertov documentary passion
Stalin disliked Vertov's “formalist” attitude,
derailing his career by mid-1930s
Famous throughout Europe in 30s Vertov
poster in England
… songs of a woman
who has cast off her veil,
of electricity
that brings light to the villages,
of water
that makes the desert recede,
of the illiterate
who have become literate,
and of all this
and LENIN
being one.
10 years after Lenin's death,
Vertov brought his image and voice back to life for amazed audiences