Packet 8: Tossup 12

This director once listened to noise from a lumber mill for hours while waiting for his girlfriend, leading him to found a “laboratory of hearing.” This director was a mentee of Esfir Shub, a female filmmaker who cameos in his best-known film. This director co-wrote “We: Variant of a Manifesto” with his (15[1])editor wife and the elder of his two cinematographer brothers, the younger of whom shot On the Waterfront (15[1])and 12 Angry Men. This (15[1])director, whose stage name translates as “spinning top,” depicted bread being “un-baked” (15[1])and a bull being “un-slaughtered” in a film whose title (*) concept inspired Jean Rouch’s (“roosh’s”) style of cinéma vérité (“vay-ree-TAY”). A film by (10[1])this director of Enthusiasm cuts shots of a funeral procession into footage of an actual birth. (10[1]-5[1])This director (10[1])illustrated the “Kino-Eye” via a closing shot (10[1])of an eye (10[1])superimposed (10[1])on a lens, (10[2])thereby ending (10[1])a 1929 film that uses (10[1])stop-motion to animate a tripod. For 10 points, name this Soviet director of Man With a Movie Camera. (10[1])■END■

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