A documentary about a cameraman that uses a range of inventive cinematic techniques to capture a day of Soviet Union life. This film follows various documentary types but I want to talk about the participatory elements of this film. We get to see the documentarian (Vertov) step away from behind the camera. We get to see him setting up his set and seeing his vision from another view. He records himself whilst he records something else. The encounter between filmmaker and subject becomes a critical element of the
