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Theory Tuesdays is a nonacademic platform for theoretical discussion founded, organized and coordinated by artist Philip Matesic since 2009 in Zürich, Switzerland. Participants read beforehand then discuss contemporary art, design, literary, cultural and critical theory on a weekly basis, with texts selected and introduced each week by a different person.

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Tuesday 8th February 2011, 8:00pm

Session 50: “Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema”

During this Theory Tuesdays session, Dimitrina Sevova screened “Chelovek S Kinoapparatom” also known as “Man With A Movie Camera” from 1929.

“Man with a Movie Camera” stands as a stinging indictment of almost every film made between its release in 1929 and the appearance of Godard’s À Bout de Souffle 30 years later – and Vertov’s dazzling picture seems, today, arguably the fresher of the two. In any case, it’s shameful that it took directors three full decades – three full decades of generally static, tedious “movies” – to remember that movies should really move, that the camera can and should be a mobile, vibrant participant in an exciting process: the transmission of events onto celluloid. This is what Man with a Movie Camera is all about. In terms of the use to which the medium was put, it’s a quantum leap forward, one of the rare films that deserves to be called a work of genius.” -Neil Young

Participants: 40

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