Yelizaveta Svilova

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова) (rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera and appears in the film.[1] She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."[2] She covered the opening of Auschwitz death camp in Poland by the Red Army in January 1945. She filmed a documentary, notably with reenactments, titled "Auschwitz", part of an exhibition titled "Filming the War, the Soviets and the Holocaust (1941-1946)" (From Friday 9 January 2015 to Sunday 27 September 2015) at Paris Memorial de la Shoah.

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References

  1. ↑ Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). Man with camera invents new style. Chicago Sun-Times
  2. ↑ Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin. New York Times


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