COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARY
‘MUSIC WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA’ is part of a series/collection of projects under the umbrella term of ‘punk/DIY’ within the iRIS research centre at Leeds Trinity University. The productions are created by collaborative endeavour and are testing how far such a democratising process can be pushed/devloped. In these projects we are seeking to make connections, build communities and ‘do it ourselves.’
MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA (Vertov, USSR, 1929) was ranked eighth in the 2017 Sight & Sound poll of the world’s best films (& by a very long way the highest ranked documentary). It announces itself as: ‘AN EXPERIMENT …In cinematic communication of real events … This experimental work aims at creating a truly international language of cinema based in its total separation from the language of theatre and literature.
It can be viewed as the visual culmination of Vertov’s 1922 manifesto: WE: VARIANT OF A MANIFESTO
Some 7s (AND SOME OTHER NUMBERS) Clash ‘Some 7s Clash’ is part of a series/collection of projects under the umbrella term of ‘punk/DIY’ within the iRIS research centre.
The productions are created by collaborative endeavour and are testing how far such a democratising process can be pushed. If the result is ‘anarchy’ we (collectively) have to decide if/when this is a good thing. In these projects we are seeking to make connections, build communities and ‘do it ourselves’ in the spirit of ‘punk’.