fbpx

October Bank Holiday Weekend (22nd - 26th) 2025

Resting and Updating

 

St Joesph's Hall | Saturday 26th | 9.15 pm | Sponsor: First Choice Utility Options

After several sold-out screenings of silent movie classics like Battleship Potemkin, Man of Aran, and Nosferatu


with newly composed live scores in previous years, Clones Film Festival has commissioned a brand-new score to Dziga Vertov’s 1929 avant-garde masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera, which will be performed live for the first time on Saturday 26th October by its composers Robbie and Rita Perry

 

Ranking in the top ten of Sight & Sound magazine’s 2022 critics’ poll of the best films ever made and topping that publication’s list of the greatest documentaries in the history of moviemaking, Man with a Movie Camera holds up as a marvel of experimental filmmaking to this day.

Vertov was a newsreel and documentary director as well as a film theorist in the early days of the Soviet Union and openly and frequently expressed his dissatisfaction with narrative tradition and his hostility towards dramatic fiction of any kind. Searching for innovative ways of reflecting “truth”, he regarded drama as another “opiate of the masses”. Man with a Movie Camera is thus not only a film about the life of Soviet citizens in the cities of Moscow, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odessa, a “city symphony” reflecting the optimism and belief in technology of the time, but also a film about filmmaking, following around the titular camera operator as he goes about his business.

To the bafflement of contemporary critics, this groundbreaking film made use of (or invented) many innovative techniques that have since become standard devices of moviemaking, including slow motion, fast motion, freeze frames, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, backward footage, animation, multiple exposures, stop motion, jump cuts, match cuts, split screen, Dutch angles, and more.

The actual Man with a Movie Camera, the chief camera operator for the film, was Dziga Vertov’s brother Mikhail Kaufman.

This screening will take place in St. Joseph’s Temperance Hall on Church Hill.

Please book early for this very special audiovisual experience at CFF!


 

Subscribe

if you want to know when engaging, intelligent films are being shown in Clones Courthouse durning our off season, add you email address and click sign up

Soliciting a savvy social sharing scheme

We all know that word of mouth is the very best form of recommendation. People take you at your word and go with that advice. We want to enjoy the benefit of the glowing recommendations we have heard so many of you say, so please take a few minutes to share those utterances with your friends. 

  • WHAT WILL ‘SHARING’ DO FOR CLONES FILM FESTIVAL? Simply put, if we can keep our promotional cost to a minimum, this enables our team to bring our audiences more films. We hear you say "WHAT CAN I DO TO HELP?" Well, we're glad you asked, as simply "LIKING" is not enough. Here's a list of things that you could do to help:
  • Share our Facebook entries on your timeline
  • Comment on our Facebook entries
  • Mention a friend’s Facebook name if you think they might be interested in a comment or a film
  • Share Clones Film Festival’s website by copying and pasting the following URL: http://www.clonesfilmfestival.com/ in your "Facebook status"
  • Go on, go ahead - just "Like" something on our Facebook page Did we mention the importance of "Sharing"?

We have added a ticket purchasing facility to our website.  This means that you will be able to "Share" a screening you would like to go to with a friend and they too can buy a ticket. Or if you see a listing for a film that a friend was talking about, then go ahead, SHARE it with them. We're guessing that if you've read this far, you realise that our general wish is that you "share" our stuff.

 

Permitted Quotations

Spoken in the heat of the moment.