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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). [ |
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). [https://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> |
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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
- ^ Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). Man with camera invents new style. Chicago Sun-Times
- ^ Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin. New York Times
External links
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