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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.
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Detail of a montage of all shots with close-ups of faces from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).
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Detail of a montage of shots from “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).
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Detail of a visualization of shot lengths in “The Eleventh Year” (Dziga Vertov, 1928).
Author
Lev Manovich
Visualizations and Publication
- Download the article (PDF 10 MB).
- The first part of this article appeared in Russian Journal of Communication, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2013; the second part was included in Jeff Geiger and Karin Littau, eds., Cinematicity in Media History (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
- View high resolution versions of all visualizations discussed in the article on Flickr.
- You can also download a single archive file (ZIP, 58 MB) containing the article PDF and full resolution versions of all visualizations.