Man with a Movie Camera

Media Studies, Film Studies, Moving Image Arts, History, Maths, Art

Key Stage 1, 2, 3, 4 and post-16

1929 film depicting a day in the life of a Russian city, great use of dramatic compositions and ‘Soviet montage’ editing techniques. You can use this film with Key Stage 2 and upwards (though there is one birth scene in graphic detail). Lots of different themes – it covers industry, sport, transport, dance, birth, death and more. You can use parts of the early scenes at Key Stage 1 for looking at numbers, shapes and patterns.

Warning: rapidly flashing editing in the final sequence.

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The BFI version with Michael Nyman’s music is cheaper, but the French version has a much more exciting score by the Alloy Orchestra based on director Dziga Vertov’s original directions.