MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (2025) (1929 VERSION)
Dirs. Tanner D. Masseth, Blake Robbins, Jay Villalobos, Jose Perez, Hank Allen, Breeding Castle, Melissa Cha, Crisis Acting, Dana Dawud, Kayla Drzewicki, Gavin DuBois, Andrea Florens, Janelle Howerton, Levels of Nuance, Emma Murray, Progga, Abbey Pusz, Redacted Cut, Max Rooney, Paranoia State, Twee Whistler, Elijah Valter, Brian Wiebe, Esteban Alarcón, Dziga Vertov. 2025.
United States/Soviet Union/Canada/Palestine/Australia/Argentina/Scotland/Bangladesh. 68 min.
No Dialogue.
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 – 7:30 PM w/Q&A (this event is $10)
SUNDAY, JUNE 1 – 10 PM w/Q&A (this event is $10)
In the 1920s, a movement of like-minded filmmakers known as The Kinoks sought to distance film from its stagebound origins and to completely remake the language of cinema, an art form still in its infancy. Basing their methods in Documentary film, the collective pioneered and invented numerous techniques we take for granted today including the double exposure, the dutch angle, stop motion, split cuts, and the extreme close-up. Helmed by director and theorist Dziga Vertov, The effort of The Kinoks would culminate in the experimental masterpiece MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA; now known worldwide as one of the most important pieces of film in cinema history.
Fast forward a century and a new international group of artists and filmmakers in the same spirit of Vertov and The Kinoks seek to reassert the question for the brain rot generation: “Do you understand me?”
Utilizing a special multi-channel display reminiscent of the splitscreen sensory overload of current short-form consumable entertainment, MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA (2025) combines a series of new visual documentary languages in order to explore their unexpected beauty and cinematic potential, including: anime fetish content, AI porn slop, Getty stock images, Instagram hyperfilters, screenlife, surveillance feeds, unboxing videos, Temu garbage, doom scrolling, Google Street View, Black Friday stampedes, Wikileaks, software renders, lifestyle vlogs, ancient emoticons, Times Square GoPro stunts, sexdoll matrimony, VR ecstasy, stolen Xiaohongshu memetics, political rioting, 3D printed pollution, Minecraft Letsplays, Crypto pump and dumps, endless streaming libraries, manned drones, seedy Russian gambling sites, 4chan, mukbang, homemade cybernetics, and Telegram war leaks. A new type of film for the Family Guy Funny Moments world.
Join us at Spectacle on June 1st, 7:30 PM for the New York City premiere of this one-in-a-lifetime cinematic experience – including the debut of a special 4-panel presentation featuring the original 1929 documentary. A film within a film within a film within a film.
Followed by an in-person Q&A with contributing filmmakers Tanner Masseth, Blake Robbins, Janelle Howerton, Progga, Breeding Castle, Melissa Cha, Hank Allen, Emma Murray, Max Rooney, Jake Calvin, John Calvin, and Kayla Drzewicki.
Soundtrack by Snakehouse + Silk Screen + Mooncloud (Massive Scrolls).
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