Man With A Movie Camera - Film Screening and Live Music Performance
Among the highlights of the 2018 Light Moves festival of screendance will be a screening of Dziga Vertov’s1929 masterpiece documentary "Man With A Movie Camera", accompanied by a live score. Enduring as one of cinema’s greatest achievements, few films have introduced the unique possibilities of film so completely as "Man With A Movie Camera",demonstrating techniques and effects that remain central to contemporary cinema. Set in Odessa,Kiev and Moscow, the film is simultaneously an exploration of the chaos of urban movement and an examination of the relationship between cinema and reality. Light Moves is delighted to present a new commissioned music score created especially for the festival by two of Ireland’s most innovative musical voices, Dunk Murphy and Neil O’Connor. The two artists, known for their significant bodies of work that span experimental music, music for concert audiences as well as music for film, will perform this new commission live.