Yelizaveta Ignatevna Svilova (Russian: Елизавета Игнатьевна Свилова) (5 September 1900 – 11 November 1975) was a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n filmmaker and film editor. She was a lifelong collaborator with her husband, Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov

David Abelevich Kaufman , better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov , was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist...

. She is best known as supervising editor on Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera , sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta...

. She was part of the "Council of Three," with her husband and brother-in-law, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman

Mikhail Kaufman

Mikhail Abramovich Kaufman ; ) was a Russian cinematographer and photographer. He was the younger brother of filmmaker Dziga Vertov and the older brother of cinematographer Boris Kaufman....

. Together, they "proclaimed a 'death sentence' on the cinema that came before, faulting it for mixing in 'foreign matter' from theater and literature."

Selected works

• Kino-Pravda
  Kino-Pravda
  Kino-Pravda was a newsreel series by Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman.Working mainly during the 1920s, Vertov promoted the concept of kino-pravda, or film-truth, through his newsreel series. His driving vision was to capture fragments of actuality which, when organized...
  
  [Russian: Кино-Правда] (1920s)
• Cinema Eye [Russian: Кино-глаз or Kino-Glaz] (1924) - Editor
• A Sixth Part of the World
  A Sixth Part of the World
  A Sixth Part of the World , sometimes referred to as The Sixth Part of the World, is a 1926 silent film directed by Dziga Vertov and produced by Kultkino and Sovkino. Through the travelogue format, it depicted the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and detailed the entirety of the...
  
   [Russian: Шестая часть мира or Shestaya chast mira] (1926) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• Forward, Soviet! [Russian Шагай, Совет! or Shagay, sovet!) 1926 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• The Oath of Youth [Russian: Клятва молодых or Klyatva molodykh] (1928) - Director
• The Eleventh Year [Russian:Одиннадцатый or Odinnadtsatyi) 1928 - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• Man with a Movie Camera
  Man with a Movie Camera
  Man with a Movie Camera , sometimes called The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Russian director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta...
  
  [Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом or Chelovek s kino-apparatom] (1929) - Assistant Editor
• Enthusiam [Russian: Энтузиазм: Цимфония Донбасса or Entuziazm: Simfoniya Donbassa] (1930) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• Three Songs of Lenin [Russian: Три песни о Ленине, Tri pesni o Lenine] (1934) - 2nd Unit/Assistant Director
• The Fall of Berlin [Russian: Берлин] (1945) - Director
• Parade of Youth [Russian: Парад молодости or Parad molodosti] (1946) - Director
• Nuremberg Trials [Russian: Суд народов or Sud narodov] (1947) - Director