Yelizaveta Svilova

Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизавета Игнатьевна Свилова) (5 September 1900 – 11 November 1975) was a Russian filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera.[1] She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."[2]

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