Slavic Studies Librarianship

This blog is dedicated to Slavic Studies, East and Central European Studies and Central Asian Studies librarianship. This personal blog was created by Liladhar R. Pendse (Slavic & Eastern European Studies Librarian at Princeton University, Princeton). Keywords: Slavic Studies, Russian, Central and East European, Eurasian Studies, Academic Librarianship, Minorities of Russian Federation, Princeton University, My Alma mater UCLA, Russian Diaspora, Caucasus, and Central Asia.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Dziga Vetrov (David A. Kaufman) Films-Kino Glaz Online

There are multiple sites about Dziga Vetrov and his Kino-Glaz and other films of the early Soviet Period. These sites allow its readers to enjoy some of the Soviet filmography. There are two sites that I would specifically recommend to the readers of my blog. The first site is at UBUWEB, where a reader of this blog can watch two films by Dziga Vetrov: Three songs about Lenin (1934) and Kino-Eye (1924). It is interesting to also note the propagandist character of these early Soviet Films. But if you analyze them closely, you do find a level of silent dissent. For example, sayings like- There is not a single father who did (things for us) as Lenin did, is open for our interpretation.

The other interesting film entitled, "Казахстан — фронту" can be found here.

The other site is Senses of Cinema.
More information about filmography of Dziga Vetrov can be found at this site.