Esfir Shub

Esfir Shub appears in Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera

Esfir Ilyinichna Shub (Russian: Эсфи́рь Ильи́нична Шуб; 16 March 1894, Surazh, Russian Empire – 21 September 1959, Moscow, Soviet Union), also referred to as Esther Il'inichna Shub, was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and editor in both the mainstream and documentary fields.[1] She is best known for her trilogy of films, Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), The Great Road (1927), and The Russia of Nicholas II and Leo Tolstoy (1928).[2] Shub is credited as the creator of compilation film[3] and is known for her revolutionary approaches to editing and assembling preserved and archived footage.

  1. ^ Peter Rollberg (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 680–682. ISBN 978-1442268425.
  2. ^ Barsam, Richard Meran (1992). Nonfiction Film: A Critical History. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 76.
  3. ^ Petric, Vlada (1989). Esther Shub: Film as a Historical Discourse. In "Show Us Life": Toward a History of Aesthetics of the Committed Documentary. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. pp. 21–46.