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.

Selected works

Kino-Pravda [Russian: Кино-Правда] (1920s)
Cinema Eye [Russian: Кино-глаз or Kino-Glaz] (1924) - Editor
A Sixth Part of the World [Russian: Шестая часть мира or Shestaya chast mira] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
Forward, Soviet! [Russian Шагай, Совет! or Shagay, sovet!) 1926 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
The Oath of Youth [Russian: Клятва молодых or Klyatva molodykh] (1928) - Director
The Eleventh Year [Russian:Одиннадцатый or Odinnadtsatyi) 1928 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
Man with a Movie Camera [Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом or Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929) - Assistant Editor
Enthusiasm [Russian: Энтузиазм: Цимфония Донбасса or Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
Three Songs of Lenin [Russian: Три песни о Ленине, Tri pesni o Lenine] (1934) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
The Fall of Berlin [Russian: Берлин] (1945) - Director
Parade of Youth [Russian: Парад молодости or Parad molodosti] (1946) - Director
Nuremberg Trials [Russian: Суд народов or Sud narodov] (1947) - Director

References

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

External links

Yelizaveta Svilova at IMDb
Yelizaveta Svilova at Find a Grave

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[ebert-1] Ebert, Roger (December 4, 2009). Man with camera invents new style. Chicago Sun-Times

[lim-2] Lim, Dennis (April 8, 2011). Machine Age Poet, Born in Revolution, Stifled Under Stalin. New York Times

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