Vertov in Blum. An Investigation

Austria 2009
Concept: Adelheid Heftberger, Michael Loebenstein, Georg Wasner
Edited by: Michael Loebenstein, Georg Wasner
Narrated by: Kellie Rife (English version)
Collaborators: Aleksandr Derjabin, Lev Manovich, Dalibor Mitrovic, Thomas Tode, Maia Zaharieva, Matthias Zeppelzauer
Original format: Color and black/white
Runtime: 14 min

Albrecht Viktor Blum's compilation film Im Schatten der Maschine. Ein Montagefilm (In the Shadow of the Machine. A Compilation Film, 1928) uses (amongst others) footage from Dziga Vertov's Oddinatcatyj.
The Video Essay Vertov in Blum compares the images in both films and investigates if lost footage from Oddinatcayj can be found in Im Schatten der Maschine. It was first published as a bonus feature on the Double DVD of Vertov's Šestaja čast' mira (A Sixth Part of the World, 1926) & Odinnadcatyj (The Eleventh Year, 1928) together with Albrecht Viktor Blum's compilation film.

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