The Cinematheque

“A Sixth Part of the World is more than a film … Whether it is a newsreel, a comedy, an artistic hit-film, A Sixth Part is somewhere beyond the boundaries of these definitions; it is already the next stage after the concept of ​‘cinema’ itself.”

Dziga Vertov

“Man with a Movie Camera” Dziga Vertov sent eight camera crews—kino-oki, or cinema-eyes—to the far-flung corners of the USSR to create this kino-eye travelogue capturing the diverse peoples and lands that then made up one-sixth of the planet. Shot in Ukraine, Siberia, Leningrad, Uzbekistan, and other points, and assembled by master editor Vertov, the film was designed as a clarion call for Soviet unity, and a demonstration of Soviet resources and potential, as the tenth anniversary of the Revolution approached.

preceded by

Kino-Pravda No. 21: Leninskaya
USSR 1925
Dziga Vertov
29 min. DCP

From Dziga Vertov’s famous Kino-Pravda (“Cinema Truth”) newsreel series, this commemoration of the first anniversary of Lenin’s death includes animated effects.