Film Studies Daily Log

Thursday, October 18

We watched all of Man with a Movie Camera again, this time in three minutes (at 20x speed)!

We then compared the film as a Constructivist artwork with projections of other early Soviet Constructivist works, from movie posters to towers.

Next we watched a short section of the film dealing with labor, and discussed the comments about it from the handout entitled "Sergei Eisenstein's montage theory" (not to be confused with the handout entitled "Eisenstein's Montage Theories").

Finally, we watched the section again with the voice-over commentary of Yuri Tsivian expanding upon the contrast in the segment between service work and production work.