Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
Could this be the original observational documentary? We begin as the audience flood into a cinema and settle down in front of the big screen. The cameraman then takes us on a tour of his city with no apparent rhyme nor reason to the imagery we see. There's a bit of the old Imperial opulence reflected in the architecture to contrast with the street beggars (whom the Soviet Union aways denied exist...