Other Screenings
Following the screening, conversation with filmmakers Galina and Anna Evtushenko
Following the screening, conversation with filmmakers Galina and Anna Evtushenko
In 1910, when Leo Tolstoy died, Dziga Vertov was an unknown 14-year-old boy from Byalistok. Tolstoy couldn’t be aware of either the name, or the films made by Vertov, who developed the concept of a documentary as high art. The film is made as a parallel movement of artistic motivations, outlooks on life and biographies of the two artists. Vertov in his best films, such as “Kino-Glaz”, “The Donbass Symphony”, “A Man with a Movie-Camera”, etc., followed the basic aesthetic principles of Leo Tolstoy and brought the traditions of the Russian classical literature to the screen.