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'''Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova''' ({{lang-ru|Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова}}) (rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, [[Moscow]] – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a [[Russia]]n [[filmmaker]] and [[film editor]]. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, [[Dziga Vertov]]. She is best known as supervising editor on ''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' and appears in the film.<ref name="ebert">Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=12C64869AF0D8840&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Man with camera invents new style.] ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''</ref> She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer [[Mikhail Kaufman]]. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."<ref name="lim">Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/dziga-vertov-films-at-museum-of-modern-art.html Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin.] ''[[New York Times]]''</ref> She covered the opening of Auschwitz death camp in Poland by the Red Army in January 1945. She filmed a documentary, notably with reenactments, titled "Auschwitz", part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War,
'''Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova''' ({{lang-ru|Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова}}, rendered in Latin as '''Elizaveta Svilova''') (5 September 1900, [[Moscow]] – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a [[Russia]]n [[filmmaker]] and [[film editor]].
She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, [[Dziga Vertov]]. She is best known as the supervising editor on ''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' and for appearing in the film.<ref name="ebert">Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=CSTB&p_theme=cstb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=12C64869AF0D8840&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Man with camera invents new style.] ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''</ref>
==Council of Three==
She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, [[cinematographer]] [[Mikhail Kaufman]]. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."<ref name="lim">Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/movies/dziga-vertov-films-at-museum-of-modern-art.html Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin.] ''[[New York Times]]''</ref>
==Auschwitz==
She covered the opening of [[Auschwitz]] [[death camp]] in [[Poland]] by the [[Red Army]] in January 1945. She filmed a documentary, notably with reenactments, titled ''Auschwitz'', part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War; the Soviets and the Holocaust (1941-1946)" (9 January 2015 – 27 September 2015) in [[Paris]], [[France]], at the [[Memorial de la Shoah]].
the Soviets and the Holocaust (1941-1946)" (From Friday 9 January 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015) at Paris Memorial de la Shoah.


==Selected works==
==Selected works==
*''[[Kino-Pravda]]'' [Russian: Кино-Правда] (1920s)
*''[[Kino-Pravda]]'' [Russian: Кино-Правда] (1920s)
*''[[Cinema Eye]]'' [Russian: Кино-глаз or Kino-Glaz] (1924) - Editor
*''[[Cinema Eye]]'' [Russian: Кино-глаз or Kino-Glaz] (1924) - Editor
*''[[A Sixth Part of the World]] [Russian: Шестая часть мира or Shestaya chast mira] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[A Sixth Part of the World]]'' [Russian: Шестая часть мира or Shestaya chast mira] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[Forward, Soviet!]]'' [Russian Шагай, Совет! or Shagay, sovet!) 1926 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[Forward, Soviet!]]'' [Russian Шагай, Совет! or Shagay, sovet!] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[The Oath of Youth]]'' [Russian: Клятва молодых or Klyatva molodykh] (1928) - Director
*''[[The Oath of Youth]]'' [Russian: Клятва молодых or Klyatva molodykh] (1928) - Director
*''[[The Eleventh Year]]'' [Russian:Одиннадцатый or Odinnadtsatyi) 1928 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[The Eleventh Year]]'' [Russian:Одиннадцатый 00 Odinnadtsatyi] (1928) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' [Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом or Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929) - Assistant Editor
*''[[Man with a Movie Camera]]'' [Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом or Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929) - Assistant Editor
*''[[Enthusiasm (film)|Enthusiasm]]'' [Russian: Энтузиазм: Цимфония Донбасса or Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
*''[[Enthusiasm (film)|Enthusiasm]]'' [Russian: Энтузиазм: Цимфония Донбасса or Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
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Revision as of 20:40, 31 January 2017

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова, rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor.

She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as the supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera and for appearing in the film.[1]

Council of Three

She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."[2]

Auschwitz

She covered the opening of Auschwitz death camp in Poland by the Red Army in January 1945. She filmed a documentary, notably with reenactments, titled Auschwitz, part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War; the Soviets and the Holocaust (1941-1946)" (9 January 2015 – 27 September 2015) in Paris, France, at the Memorial de la Shoah.

Selected works

  • Kino-Pravda [Russian: Кино-Правда] (1920s)
  • Cinema Eye [Russian: Кино-глаз or Kino-Glaz] (1924) - Editor
  • A Sixth Part of the World [Russian: Шестая часть мира or Shestaya chast mira] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
  • Forward, Soviet! [Russian Шагай, Совет! or Shagay, sovet!] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
  • The Oath of Youth [Russian: Клятва молодых or Klyatva molodykh] (1928) - Director
  • The Eleventh Year [Russian:Одиннадцатый 00 Odinnadtsatyi] (1928) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
  • Man with a Movie Camera [Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом or Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929) - Assistant Editor
  • Enthusiasm [Russian: Энтузиазм: Цимфония Донбасса or Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
  • Three Songs of Lenin [Russian: Три песни о Ленине, Tri pesni o Lenine] (1934) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
  • The Fall of Berlin [Russian: Берлин] (1945) - Director
  • Parade of Youth [Russian: Парад молодости or Parad molodosti] (1946) - Director
  • Nuremberg Trials [Russian: Суд народов or Sud narodov] (1947) - Director

References

  1. ^ Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). Man with camera invents new style. Chicago Sun-Times
  2. ^ Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin. New York Times

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