L'Homme à la caméra - Extrait du journal d'un opérateur

Three heroes in this film: the city of Odessa, its inhabitants and a man: an artist and cameraman comrade walking around the city, carrying the weight of his camera. The trio is to plait the three threads of a day and to unroll a film that is making itself before our very eyes, an amazingly beautiful film, pregnant with formal inventions and speed, whose editing glorifies ordinary life and work to the height of extraordinariness.
Though this film without words, subtitles, actors or setting was meant to be the manifesto of a new cinematographic realism uninhibited by literature, it mostly shows the hallucinated powers of editing, or more exactly of cinema, since the film is in fact a passionate defence and illustration of cinema itself.