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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