TagDziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov’s Eye

I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it.

Dziga Vertov

REVIEWS

Eyforiya (Euphoria, 2006)

A tragic romantic story set in the immense Russian steppe. A theatrical experience told by Ivan Vyrypaev in pure cinematic language.

Force of Evil (1948)

Abrahams Polonsky suggests that entrepreneurship is not so far away from criminality and that something is corrupted in the immaculate postwar American society.

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

Algunas Chicas (Some Girls) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A rather obscure and off beat thriller by Santiago Palavecino that is set contemporarily in dream and reality.

Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie) (Every Man for Himself, 1980)

Jean-Luc Godard explores the limits of individualism, apathy and venality as the children of Marx and Coca-Cola grew up.

QUOTES

Pasolini: L’anarchia del potere

Nulla è più anarchico del potere, il potere fa praticamente ciò che vuole

those lacking imagination

take refuge in reality

But the cinephile is…

But the cinephile is… a neurotic!

Roberto Rossellini: Camera’s a ballpoint pen

The camera’s a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it’s not worth anything if you don’t have anything to say.

Pasolini e gli italiani

Intelligence will never have much value in the collective judgment of this public's opinion.