Man With a Movie Camera
Perhaps the original reality bending movie, this film challenged the verisimilitude of cinema a little over 30 years after audiences fled the theater at the sight of a filmed train fast approaching. Man With a Movie Camera takes a relatively simple concept, a day in a Russian city, and flips it on its head. The film draws out the viewer from the world in front of the camera until we watch the filming and editing of the movie itself, get trapped in loops playing on the projector, and even see freeze frames fall to the cutting room floor. Though the movie is largely plotless and shot in black and white, it contains impeccable visuals all done with the limited technology of the 1930’s.
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