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Dziga Vertov's 'Entuziazm: Simfoniia Donbassa' ('Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass', 1930) was one of the first sound films in the Soviet Union. If Vertov's classic 'Man with a Movie Camera' is a bombardment of images, 'Enthusiasm' is a bombardment of sound, experimenting with music, sync sound and dialogue.

Celebrating the first Five Year Plan, 'Enthusiasm' documents socialization and industrialization in the Donbass region in the Ukraine, "fulfilling and overfulfilling the Plan on the sound-cinema front."

At its best, it creates music out of industrial noise (a bit like 'Eraserhead'), though at other times the cacophonic marching music gets just a little too, eh, enthusiastic.

More info: here (in Italian and English) and here (contains samples of the written score).

13 November 2005, 23:33 | Used tags: dziga_vertov, film, music

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