Man With a Movie Camera, 1929

A self-reflexive film of comparisons and contrasts, similarities and differences, associations and disassociations. A film theater, a film being made. Man with a movie camera, women with editing scissors. A scene being edited, the edited scene. A magician performs for a child audience, a film plays for its audience. Lens, eye, window with shutters. The life of the individual, the life of the city. Inside, outside. Close up, long shot. Camera, sewing machine, automobile, train. Stop gap animation of the inanimate camera. Man behind the camera, man with a movie camera in front of the movie camera. Horizontal movement, vertical movement. Moving toward, moving away. Marriage, divorce. Live birth, possible death. Sill camera filming movement, a moving camera. Dynamic shot, still shot. Documentary realism, stylized filmmaking. Fantasy-Hollywood filmmaking, materialist-Marxist filmmaking. Catching people unawares, people playing for the camera. A city running on power, laborers producing power. Machines, steelmakers. Manual labor, mechanized production. Traffic conductors, telephone operators. Work starts, machines start; machines stop, workers stop. Work and leisure. A leisuring class, leisure for the working class. Athletic bodies, idle bodies. Fantasy-Hollywood films, alcohol, and religion as opiates of the masses. Lenin, the workers’ newspaper, and man with a movie camera. An amazing symphony of images.

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