FREE SCREENING! Man with a Movie Camera is a 1929 experimental Soviet short film that exemplifies the range and possibilities of cinema as a medium. There are no characters, no story, no plot. Director Dziga Vertov and cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman display the everyday life of soviet people using pioneering camera techniques, including multiple exposures, slow motion, match cuts, split screens, and Dutch angles. The film exemplifies Soviet of filmmaking, as influential as the works of Sergei Eisenstein, and is an early example of the technical capabilities of the film camera.