The Man With The Camera

Avant Guarde by an standards, the film we viewed on firday was a perfect representation of man's experimentation with a new medium. Although the film really had no dicernable satory line, it was still interesting to try to make out some sort of pattern whithin the madness that was this film. It seemed as though the film went from man's awakening in the morning to his working throughout the day, moving then into liesure (the scenes at the beach) and then a somewhat abrupt ending. However, the film is obviously not mean to be appreciated for its story line, or lack thereof, but more for the ability of the director to experiment with a new medium in ways that had never been done before. A few of the things one can notice is the directors use of slow motion, reverse, and also melding two different pieces of film together to create an illusion of things being on top of one another. One of the things that I found exceedingly interesting was the score underneath the film. Although the score was not originally run with the film, the score that was played during our screening was written based on notes left by the director. My personal favorite part was near the end of the film, the cameraman begins to show different government buildings and pictures of Lenin, and the score changes from un-melodic noise to the ever famous "Internationale", playing two verses before returining to the mopre undertone style of score. An appropriate place to play it, the Internationale was then, and still is a song repersentative of socialist, communists, anarchists, and political dissenters all of the world.