Round 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 editor wife and the elder of his two cinematographer brothers, the younger of whom shot On the Waterfront and 12 Angry Men. This director, whose stage name translates as “spinning top,” depicted bread being “un-baked” 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 this director of Enthusiasm cuts shots of a funeral procession into footage of an actual birth. (10[1])This director (10[1])illustrated the “Kino-Eye” via a closing shot of an eye superimposed on a lens, thereby ending a 1929 film that uses stop-motion to animate a tripod. For 10 points, name this Soviet director of Man With a Movie Camera. ■END■

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