The Dryden will screen Chelovek s kino-apparatom (Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, Soviet Union 1929, 68 min., DCP) with live musical accompaniment from the Alloy Orchestra as part of the Labor Film Series series.

The Alloy Orchestra returns to the Dryden Theatre with this silent film, director Dziga Vertov's lasting contribution to world cinema. This classic of experimental early filmmaking shows the work of a cameraman as he records life and work in the streets of Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. Groundbreaking for its use of emerging film techniques, including multiple exposure, fast- and slow-motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, and stop-motion animation, this film was voted as the best documentary of all time in a 2014 Sight and Sound critics' poll. Alloy Orchestra based their score on the director's notes to his composer for the premiere of the film in 1929.

[source: George Eastman Museum website, 2019-Oct-28]