A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Excellent documentary showcasing life at the end of the 1920s. A masterpiece from a cinematographic point of view, as it was pretty much non existent by then, it features techniques used by the director, or invented by him, like multiple exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, match cuts, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, reversed footage, stop motion animations and self-reflexive visuals. The music complements the daily life in a wonderful way and although it’s only a bit over an hour, it’s an entertaining, educational movie, a window to a world gone now. Six popcorns and it jumps into the Movie Vault.
