A propos de nice

À propos de Nice is a 1930 silent short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo and photographed by Boris Kaufman – the brother of Man With A Movie Camera’s director, Dziga Vertov. The film depicts life in Nice, France by documenting the people in the city, their daily routines, a carnival and social inequalities.
Vigo described the film in an address to the Groupement des Spectateurs d'Avant-Garde: "In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial... the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution.“
Although French, the film is heavily influenced by Soviet Modernism and Constructivism – not least through the family ties to Vertov – and as such sits firmly in that genre.





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