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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>
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>


==Biography ==
== Early Life<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.btchflcks.com/2015/11/vintage-viewing-elizaveta-svilova-mastering-montage.html#.WjyQlFQ-fq1|title=Vintage Viewing: Elizaveta Svilova, Mastering Montage {{!}} Bitch Flicks|website=www.btchflcks.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-22}}</ref> ==
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (born Elizaveta Schnitt) was born on September 5th. Starting at age 14 she began film editing for Pathe. She met Dziga Vertov while working as a film editor. They married in 1924. After her husband feel out of favor with the soviets, Svilova continued to work in film and obtain work for the both of them. They continued to work together until Vertov's death in 1954.
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==Council of Three==
==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). [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>
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>


The trio was known for their avant garde and futurist ideas. Vertov's work was condemned for not adhering to the socialist realism expectations of the time. in 1927 he was Sovkino Studio.<ref name=":0" />
==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]].
==World War II==
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]].

In 1946 her film, Zverstva fashitov, was used as evidence in the [[Nuremberg trials|Nuremberg Trials]]. She later co-directed a film about the trials with C. Svilov, condemning the warmongering and atrocities present in WWII.


==Filmography<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0841294/|title=Elizaveta Svilova|website=IMDb|access-date=2017-12-22}}</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]

Biography

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (born Elizaveta Schnitt) was born on September 5th. Starting at age 14 she began film editing for Pathe. She met Dziga Vertov while working as a film editor. They married in 1924. After her husband feel out of favor with the soviets, Svilova continued to work in film and obtain work for the both of them. They continued to work together until Vertov's death in 1954.

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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."[4]

The trio was known for their avant garde and futurist ideas. Vertov's work was condemned for not adhering to the socialist realism expectations of the time. in 1927 he was Sovkino Studio.[2]

World War II

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.

In 1946 her film, Zverstva fashitov, was used as evidence in the Nuremberg Trials. She later co-directed a film about the trials with C. Svilov, condemning the warmongering and atrocities present in WWII.

Filmography[5]

Year Title Notes
1920's Kino-Pravda 23 issue newsreel series
1924 Cinema Eye Editor
1925 The First October Without Ilich 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
1926 A Sixth Part of the World 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
1926 Shagay, Sovet! 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
1927 Bukhara Director
1928 The Oath of Youth Director
1928 The Eleventh Year 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
1929 Man with a Movie Camera Editor
1929 Enthusiasm 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
1934 Three Songs of Lenin 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
198 In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze Assistant Director
1942 For You at the Front Director
1944 Klyatva Molodykh Director
1945 The Fall of Berlin Director, won the 1946 Stalin Prize
1945 Auschwitz Director/Writer
1946 Parade of Youth Director
1947 Nuremberg Trials Director

References

  1. ^ Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). Man with camera invents new style. Chicago Sun-Times
  2. ^ a b "Vintage Viewing: Elizaveta Svilova, Mastering Montage | Bitch Flicks". www.btchflcks.com. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  3. ^ "Elizaveta Svilova | Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos | AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  4. ^ Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin. New York Times
  5. ^ "Elizaveta Svilova". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-12-22.

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