Dziga Vertov Group

Dziga Vertov Group

The Dziga Vertov Group ( _fr. Groupe Dziga Vertov) was formed in 1968 by politically active filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. Their films are defined primarily for Brechtian forms, Marxist ideology, and a lack of personal authorship. The group, named after 1920s-'30s Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov, was dissolved soon after the completion of 1972's "Letter to Jane".

They are generally credited with having made nine films:
*1968 "Un Film comme les autres" ("A Film Like the Others")
*1969 "British Sounds/See You At Mao"
*1969 "Pravda"
*1969 "Le Vent d'est" ("Wind from the East")
*1969 "Luttes en Italie" ("Struggles in Italy")
*1970 "Jusqu'à la victoire" ("Until Victory/Palestine Will Win")
*1971 "Vladimir et Rosa" ("Vladimir and Rosa")
*1972 "Tout va bien" ("Everything's Fine")
*1972 "Letter to Jane"

"Jusqu'à la victoire" could not be completed after the film's subjects and members of the Palestine Liberation Organization were killed shortly after the initial footage was taken. Jean-Luc Godard later used the existing material in his 1974 film "Ici et ailleurs" ("Here and elsewhere"). In the film, Godard and his wife deconstruct his and Gorin's methods for making "Jusqu'à la victoire" and they in turn call into question the methods and the manifesto of the Dziga Vertov Group as a whole.

References

* [http://www.janedealmeida.com Jane de Almeida] , [http://books.google.com/books?id=wPVl-WvoUnAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=dziga+vertov+group&ei=-QqxR_yeN5HCzATv-uDSDw&sig=6ZOC1GpuF4IM9OtVH_Lf9KEuDpw#PPA2,M1 Opening cans of Campbell's soup] , "Grupo Dziga Vertov" (São Paulo: Witz edições, 2005).


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