Man With a Movie Camera review – visionary, transformative 1929 experimental film

Dziga Vertov’s experimental silent documentary upends reality in ways that are still dizzying, thrilling and strangely sexyThe spirit of punk throbs in this extraordinary silent classic from 1929, now on cinema rerelease. Dziga Vertov’s experimental documentary essay remains fascinating after all these years, as potent as an exposed fragment of sodium. It shows scenes of city life in Moscow, Odessa and Kiev, and the credits describe it as an “experiment in cinematic communication