#the dziga vertov group

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Godard and Glauber Rocha playing football on the film set of Wind from the East / Le vent d'est, 1969.

Photos: Beuna Amico

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British Sounds

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opération béton, jean-luc godard 1955

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Le vent d'est, Groupe Dziga Vertov [1970]

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東風 Le vent d'est , 1970

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Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

Cast: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova. Scenario: Dziga Vertov. Cinematography: Mikhail Kaufman. Film editing: Dziga Vertov. 

As the truism has it, the movies taught us to see. But the great achievement of Man With a Movie Camera, the thing that causes critics to repeatedly put it on lists of the greatest films of all time, is that it helps us understand what the movies are making us see. In its tour of a city in the Soviet Union -- actually a composite of four cities: Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa -- the film works by montage, by swift cutting from one scene to another, juxtaposing birth and death, marriage and divorce, humanity and the machine, and any number of other supposed antitheses, giving us a sense of the interwoven texture of life itself. But at the same time, it exposes us to its own tricks: It shows a carload of people, then it shows us the cameraman precariously perched in another automobile, filming the group. It could even have pulled back to show us the camera filming the car with the cameraman who is filming the original carload, but by that time we've gotten the idea: Movies, like any attempt to construct reality, which we do in every waking moment, are a trick of perception. "Dziga Vertov," which translates from Ukrainian as something like "spinning top," was the pseudonym of a director also known as Denis Kaufman, whose brother, Boris Kaufman, won an Oscar as the cinematographer for On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954). Unlike Boris, Denis remained in the Soviet Union until his death in 1954, a loyal Marxist who was considered a major director and film theorist well into the 1930s, though his later career was stymied by the ideological changes that took place under Stalin. His wife, Elizaveta Svilova, worked as his editor, and the actual "man with a movie camera" seen in the film was his other brother, Mikhail Kaufman. Man With a Movie Camera is one of the essential films, even today, when almost everyone is a person with a movie camera in the shape of a smartphone in their pocket. 

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Pravda (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Groupe Dziga Vertov, 1969)

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ICI ET AILLEURS - HERE AND ELSE WHERE (1976) JLG/Groupe Dziga Vertov

Encargado por la Liga Árabe para producir una película sobre la Revolución Palestina, los planes de Godard y Gorin se vieron frustrados por el Septiembre Negro. En el contexto actual, marcado por el genocidio palestino perpetrado por Israel, esta obra adquiere una relevancia aún mayor. Godard, ahora trabajando con Miéville, transformó el metraje original en una mordaz autocrítica, paralelando las vidas de una familia francesa y una familia palestina, destacando las complejidades y tragedias de la lucha palestina que sigue vigente hoy en día.

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“British Sounds” (1969) by Jean-Luc Godard <Groupe Dziga Vertov>

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“Le Vent d'est” (1969) by Jean-Luc Godard <Groupe Dziga Vertov>

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Jean-Luc Godard

(The Dziga Vertov Group)

Le vent d’est / Wind from the East ,

1970.

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«Ce n'est pas une image juste, c'est juste une image» "This is not a just image, this is just an image”

Une des phrases-clé des XXe et XXIe siècles...

Carton-intertitre extrait du film  «Le Vent d'Est» (1970) du groupe Dziga Vertov (Godard/Gorin)

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British Sounds (See You at Mao) | Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger, & Dziga Vertov Group | 1970

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Tout va bien | Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Pierre Gorin | 1972

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A Film Like Any Other (1968) dir. Jean-Luc Godard