Elizaveta Svilova Quotes

A collection of quotes by Elizaveta Svilova.

Elizaveta Svilova (1900-1975) was a prominent Soviet film editor and a key collaborator of renowned filmmaker Dziga Vertov. She played a crucial role in the development of Soviet montage theory and the creation of innovative documentary films. Svilova worked closely with Vertov on his groundbreaking film "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), where her editing skills and creative vision helped shape the film's revolutionary style. She continued to work in the film industry, contributing to numerous projects and leaving a lasting impact on the world of cinema.

Mayakovsky has an essay called How to Write Poems where he says that a poet must spend time and effort choosing the uniquely appropriate words, force them into the rhythm of the poem and then test it out loud ten times or more. Vertov did something very similar at the editing table. A hundred tests, a thousand different variants, endless numbers of try-outs--for meaning, for imagery, for rhythm--and finally, after long intensive efforts, that feeling of joy: it works. . .

Elizaveta Svilova

Film / Filmmaking / Movies