Filmmaker and editor Shub was a pioneer of the ‘compilation film’: a radical form of non-fiction transforming vastly different footage into an ‘ideological weapon’ through creative montage. Segodnya weaponises images and intertitles to demonstrate the superiority of communism over capitalism. Whilst lauding the social progress of the USSR’s five-year plan, Shub turns America’s own images against it, to illustrate the greed, exploitation and indolence of ‘the fortress of world imperialism’. Police seized Segodnya prior to a 1932 WFPL screening. The film had a lasting influence on the League’s filmmakers.
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Due to the weak quality of the only screening film available and acknowledging the importance of this film, the screening will be free entrance. Tickets should be picked up at the ticket office of Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema.