Man with a Movie Camera

A timeless masterpiece of Soviet avant-garde cinema from the 1920s — innovative and strikingly modern even a century later.

In this legendary documentary, Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov develops his famous concept of the “cine-eye” — a camera more perfect than human vision itself, capable of “catching life off guard.” Rather than simply reproducing reality, Vertov’s camera, in his own words, “attacks” it, constructing meaning through associative, rhythmic, and poetic montage.