Video / VHS / Documentary

Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera reinvented what documentary could be. Esfir Shub edited newsreel footage into historical arguments. Artavazd Peleshyan built films from found imagery that feel like poems. The documentary tradition of the Soviet and post-Soviet world is one of the richest and most inventive anywhere, ranging from nature films of breathtaking scale to intimate portraits of vanishing ways of life.