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January 2013

11 January 2013

Visualizing Vertov: Visualization Analysis of Russian Avant-garde Cinema

  • All shots with close-ups of faces from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928). The shots are arranged in the order of their appearance in the film, left to right, top to bottom. Each shot is represented by its second frame. The complete film is 52 min, 654 shots.

  • Detail of a montage of all shots with close-ups of faces from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).

  • Detail of a montage of shots from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).

  • Detail of a visualization of shot lengths in “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).

Author

Lev Manovich

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