Man With The Movie Camera

i thought this film was very provactive for its time period. some motifs i noticed were

1. from the eyes of a filmmaker

2. natural ongoings of the time period

3. quick movements

i thought it was very cool to see how a filmmaker moves and goes about capturing his footage. all to often i think of the final outcome, the film itself, but i think the cooler, more mysterious aspect of filmmaking lays behind the final outcome. this motif adheres to his manifesto of "From the Diary of A Cameraman."

i thought the natural ongoings of life at the time (1929) was brilliant. there was no real set, no actors, no scripts. the film just captured what the time period brought to the camera, without fuss or practice. this natural or on the flip side, industrial, activity that the man captured became its on set with its own actors and its own scripts. 

the quick splices and random movements and bouncing from one idea from the next produces a lack of scenario. the viewer has no real time to get attached to one particular set of images, rather the attachment comes to the overall film itself. I loved the use of splices, which was probably very innovative at the time. 

some smaller motifs were the use of people. i loved how he connected cold hard machinery to warm and moving people. the shots with the cigarette factory and the women connecting phone calls were great. the work and actions of the people moved the machinery, combining them into one.