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...films of the Dziga-Vertov group are, in this sense, films of struggle. To begin to talk about them, you must first of all understand those against whom they struggle, instead of deploring their inaccessibility, their unintellibility, their lack of human warmth, etc; as though criticism's first task was to prohibit boredom in the spectator...
...linked to the system of representation in class society. Our goal is not to wrench the spectator out of his chair, as some accuse us (so that they can dismiss us as ultra-leftists); it is simply a question of arousing mental activity and the critical faculty. --the Dziga-Vertov group in Cahiers de Cinema, August...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. "The Girl and Her Trust" and "A, Temporary Truce" by D.W. Griffith and "Western History" by Stan Brakhage, "Nostalgia" by Hollis Frampton and "Running Shadow" by Robert Fulton. Feb. 8, 7:30, $1. Vladimir and Rosa by the Dziga Vertov Group (Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin) Feb. 11, 7:30, free (sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
ABOUT the only "weaknesses of the human eye" that filmmakers have altered in the last 50 years are those they've corrected with technology-sophisticated lenses, filters, and film stock. Nobody (at all) has made any farther inroads against the realist cine-spectacle, since Vertov, on the level of challenging cinematic Illusions of illusions, mystifying reproductions of the already mystified surfaces of "reality," (Godard has only recently begun to struggle on this front.) Slickness aside, the film industry still continues to bring us the same instant replays of real or imagined events, somehow oblivious to all the movements against literal...
...first feature film-to be shown publicly for the first time tonight-Kevin Burke attacks the authoritarian cinema and seeks a new relation between people and their images by sustaining a consciousness of filmmaking as just another life-process. Available Light restates the problem posed by Vertov in new language, exploiting a melange of sophisticated techniques-surfaces of incredible richness and variety (shot by Ralph Thanhauser), lighting of immaculate control-in order to demystify their manipulations and to dramatize their limitations in creating recreating livable meaning. From the very first image-a Mobil Oil sign, the ultimate plastic and reified...