An analysis of Dziga Vertov's 1929 experimental movie; 'Man with a movie camera'. Noticing links between the movie's content and society and culture at that time.

"Man with a Movie Camera" (Dziga Vertov, 1929), is a self confessed cinematic experiment. It is a film without actors or plot, its intention is to attempt to create a "truly international, absolute language of cinema based on its total separation from the language of theater and literature." Vertov creates a film that would be considered highly experimental and original now, let alone in 1929. The film consists of a wealth of images edited together in a …

…time you boot up your computer, you make a space for yourself, an ideological, cultural or belief space." Human culture is a product of our interactions with our environment. Since technology is now a massive part of our environment, it has had a massive impact on our culture. "The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him" Adorno, Theodor W. (1974)