Sixth Part of the World

The poetic travelogue A Sixth Part of the World and the "visual symphony" The Eleventh Year mark the beginning of Dziga Vertov's most creative period, which peaked in the canonical film Man with the Movie Camera. This 2-disc set presents the two rare masterpieces in a new transfer and with new soundtracks by British composer Michael Nyman. The bonus features offer materials on the methods of the filmmaker, as well as an introduction to the Vienna research project on Vertov, "Digital Formalism."

DVD 1

• Sestaja čast' mira 1926, 73'

• Music by Michael Nyman

• 32 page bilingual booklet with essays by Barbara Wurm, Thomas Tode, Adelheid Heftberger, Aleksandr Derjabin, Michael Loebenstein, Alexander Horwath

DVD 2

• Odinnadcatyj 1928, 53'

• Music by Michael Nyman

• Im Schatten der Maschine. Ein Montagefilm 1928, 22'

• Vertov in Blum. Eine Untersuchung 2009, 14'

• ROM section with additional documents and interactive applications about Vertov's "Phrases" in Odinnadcatyj, the film's intertitles, the "Blum Affair" and the projekt "Digital Formalism".

Also available: Dziga Vertov - Entuziazm

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