The Williamsville Hall will present "Man with a Movie Camera", featuring an original soundtrack composed and performed by Dan DeWalt on Friday, February 28 and Saturday, February 29 at the Williamsville Hall on Main Street Williamsville, at 7:30. Entry by donation.

DeWalt has composed and performed soundtracks for various silent films, as well as playing music in a variety of settings throughout the region, notable, "Modern Times" and "Jean d'Arc" among them..

As described on Wikipedia: Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. It has no actors. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters", they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film.

Man with a Movie Camera is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invented, employed or developed, such as multiple exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, reversed footage, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals (at one point it features a split-screen tracking shot; the sides have opposite Dutch angles).

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