Vladimir et Rosa

Just as it was seeking new forms and new relationships within society, the Dziga Vertov group was seeking new forms and new relationships within film. The discontinuity of the political essay, alternating between general reflections and specific demonstrations of specific aspects of the anti-capitalist struggle (from the Black Panthers to the proletariat to women's rights activists), intertwines with scenes of almost didactic narrative value, aimed at deconstructing the staged process of American justice, whose parallels with Grigory Dimitrov's Nazi trial after the Reichstag fire are purely coincidental. Revolution through film, or a film about revolution for revolution; a film that constantly reflects on itself; a film that knows what it wants but doesn't know how - and if what it's doing is really new, it can't even beforehand. It is precisely this search for the new "how" that is the true goal of the film. /// However, in order not to praise it too much, the film occasionally reveals the Spartan production conditions of the aforementioned group, whose financial conditions were clearly not the most dazzling (and it was this film that was supposed to fill the gaps after the expensive filming of scenes for the Palestinian film, which eventually became Here and Elsewhere) - some scenes look more like "skits" filmed in someone's basement. There was also a bit more of didacticism and travesty at the expense of philosophical and political reflection this time. (27.02.2016)