“It is about glory! It is about courage and heroism! We are the fighters of the fire front!”
Dziga Vertov’s first venture into film with sound, Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbas, may have been primarily constructed as a propaganda piece for industrialisation, but it allowed the filmmaker an opportunity to experiment with audio - learning the new language that would fundamentally change what had been established with Soviet montage. Although not quite mastering the combination of sound and sight to…
