Yelizaveta Svilova
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (5 September 1900 - 11 November 1975) was a Russian 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.[1] 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]
Selected works
- Man with a Movie Camera [Russian: Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929)
- Enthusiasm [Russian: Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930)
- Three Songs of Lenin [Russian: Tri pesni o Lenine] (1934)
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