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 Author’s note: I have chosen to insert youtube clips throughout my analysis—this is, after all, an online journal. Man With A Movie Camera has appeared with several different musical scores in recent decades. I have chosen the Cinematic Orchestra version. The reader/viewer should feel free to mute the accompaniment if it seems distracting or undesirable—sound has no bearing on the analysis presented here.
 
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 Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera (1929), having recently celebrated its 80th anniversary, is a treasure of Soviet cinema. Of all cinema, really. Vertov’s film is a courageous and formidable work in countless respects, well deserving the popular and academic attention it has received throughout its 80 years. It’s fair to argue that such a film is therefore quite undeserving of the sordid analysis presented here. Alas, that argument awaits my critics, and certain viewers who choose to ignore the barefaced and brazen sexual insinuation coursing through this film. My claim here is to present striking parallels between Vertov’s Camera (potent images of a film Camera appear throughout the film, both with and without a camera operator) and the ubiquitous cock in heterosexual, narrative pornographic film. This study will not be limited to a simple Camera-as-Cock comparison, but will also comprise an analysis of Vertov’s depictions of the Camera Operator’s relationship to his hefty tools of empowerment, capture, and ejaculation (the film Camera and the film Projector) in relation to the (generalized) male pornstar’s reliance on his equally essential tool of sexual triumph—the Cock. But let us not rush to penetration before we have set the mood…