Michael Nyman presents NYman with a Movie Camera

Nyman's documentary  reconstructs Vertov's iconic silent picture of 1929 with his own film archives shot over the last two decades. Deeply rooted in Vertov's original ideas -- "the perception of truth," the documentation of "life as it is" and that of "life caught unawares" --Nyman's film tries to capture the essence of "what is there"and reflects on what he calls the "persistence of glance," a multi-sensorial experience of time as it occurs, of life as it happens and as recorded as human memory.

According to Kimberely, Nyman is known worldwide for his sound tracks in Gattaca (1997) and The Piano (1993). With a 35-year career and a hundred albums, he is the ideal prototype of the present-day composer: versatile and prolific, as seen in his film scores, but also in his creations for computer games, operas and fashion shows.

The composer has worked with Peter Greenaway in films like: The Draughtsman's Contract (1983) and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989). Nyman received the Ivor Novelle award for classical music, has written operas, including Man and Boy: Dada, Love Counts, The Man Wwho Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Orpheus' Daughter, Vital Statistics,  Noises, Sounds and & Sweet Airs and Facing Goya.

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