Elizaveta Svilova
Biography
Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизаве́та Игна́тьевна Сви́лова, rendered in Latin as Elizaveta Svilova) (5 September 1900, Moscow – 11 November 1975, Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She is perhaps best known for making films with her husband Dziga Vertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman. She is also known for her documentaries about World War II and for appearing in and editing Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Known For & Full Filmography3 Titles
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
In the early years of cinema, editors were usually women. This short documentary looks at how they wielded power, and how their work was made invisible.
Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Self
Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Self (archive footage)
“The Magic Beam” is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s.