At the special request of the Victoria Cultural Centre (), the Tri-City band Immortal Onion composed an original soundtrack for Dziga Vertov’s masterpiece of silent cinema, *Man with a Movie Camera*

IMMORTAL ONION

It is difficult to pigeonhole the music of the Tri-City band Immortal Onion into a single genre. The musicians draw their inspiration in equal measure from modern jazz, electronic music, math-rock, fusion and minimalism. The trio have released four albums and performed numerous concerts in Poland and abroad.
Bassist Ziemowit Klimek can often be found performing as a sideman alongside Hania Rani. Immortal Onion is considered part of the new wave of Polish jazz – a wave of bands that are not afraid of challenges, breaking down genre and artistic boundaries.

THE MAN WITH THE CINEMA CAMERA (1929)

directed by – Dziga Vertov

This is one of the most important and experimental films in the history of cinema. This silent documentary breaks with traditional narrative and actors, becoming a manifesto for the ‘kino-eye’ theory, in which the camera’s eye is regarded as superior to the human eye. The film contains no scenes with dialogue – the main protagonist is the cameraman himself (Mikhail Kaufman, Vertov’s brother), who captures everyday life and the city in constant motion. The film is a portrait of a day in Soviet metropolises (Moscow, Kyiv, Odessa), depicting everyday life, work, leisure and the clash between nature and industrialisation and machinery. The greatest strength of *Man with a Movie Camera* is its editing, which was groundbreaking for its time (the director’s wife, Yelizaveta Svilova, was responsible for the editing). She employed pioneering techniques such as time-lapse photography, time-lapse sequences, double exposure, freeze-frames and image superimposition.

The ruins of the Victoria Theatre in Gliwice
, 3 July 2026
6.00 pm – opening of the summer terrace with the Stary Kufel
bar area 7.00 pm – start of the event

FREE ENTRY, places are limited – the maximum number of participants allowed in the Ruins is 300. No tickets are required and we do not take bookings.

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The event is organised by the City of Gliwice and the Victoria
Cultural Centre. TAURON is the title sponsor of the event.
The event is being held as part of the TAURON Gliwicka Energia Kultury project.
Partners: Silesian Metropolitan Network, Hotel Qubus Gliwice