FILM CONCERT: MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
L'Alternativa 2007 will screen this classic silent film by Dziga Vertov (Bialystok 1895, Moscow 1954) with a musical accompaniment combining jazz and contemporary music by composers Marc Vernis and Marcelo Valente performed live by a septet. The composers have a solid background in jazz and have often worked together since their time together in the group JAZZ EL DESTRIPADOR.
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) is made up of hundreds of scenes of everyday life in Leningrad - most of them in the street, but also including shots of life at work and at home - in which the modern city and film camera play the starring roles. Improvised snapshots of reality, 'film phrases' which come in quick succession, trace out a kind of real-life allegory that identifies the dizzy pace of urban modernity, and its social and economic contrasts, with the same process in film documentation and editing. The relationship between film mechanics and modernity in the early 20th century is clear.
This original soundtrack was produced thanks to the Vic Film Club, a cultural association that has worked with the Festival for a number of years.
Celovek's Kinoapparatom Dziga Vertov (Russia)