Free Movie at Bell Lightbox

TIFF Future Projections is pleased to present a new film by internationally renowned composer Michael Nyman (The Piano), in Bell Lightbox’s Cinema 5, nightly at 8pm until September 19. This screening is free to the public.

In NYman With A Movie Camera, Michael Nyman revisits one of the high-points of his career: the composition of his now-famous score for Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera (1929), film #9 on the Essential 100 list. In a partial attempt to deconstruct the master’s invention of montage, Nyman began videotaping things around him, substituting new images, shot-for-shot, for Vertov’s own, and then reapplying his score. The seemingly random images tease us into imagining a story, but in our frustration to fit the pieces together, we pay attention to Nyman’s original score – and through it, we come to feel the narrative connections between the two films.