*** 1/2

A truly inspired, technical, non-narrative film that really showed what the medium could do, even back in the 1920s.  Russian filmmaker Dziga Vertov decided to film a day in a Russian city...and that took 4 years.  The film consists of shots of the city working, the filmmaker shooting the city, and the filmmakers editing together their film.  It is truly groundbreaking and the kinetics of the editing were so far ahead of its time, that it defies logic.  There is no story to tell, but it does show us how stories will be told for decades to come.  Wonderful piece of work, and truly important to the world of cinema.