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Demonlover, written and directed by Assayas, is stylish, bizarre, cold and confused – a gripping portrait of a global civilization driven and defeated by technology, sex, violence and power games. Demonlover, in fact, is basically Videodrome for the new millennium. In this erotic thriller, Diane de Monx (Connie Nielsen), is an executive with a French multinational entertainment corporation competing for a distribution deal with TokyoAnime, whose revolutionary pornographic 3-D animation is set to wipe out the competition in an extremely lucrative market. She’s also a corporate spy, secretly working for another company called Mangatronic, recruited to sabotage the deal between Demonlover and Tokyo-Anime. Eventually all the double-crossing leads Diane to discover an unexpected link between the business deal and a sadistic underground website called “The Hellfire Club." Diane enters a world where sex and violence become extreme, where she struggles to separate real life from cyber reality, in which she no longer has any control.
 * Demonlover, Olivier Assayas, 2002.**

The Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertovis, is a compelling and delightful exploration of the life, and a breathless statement of excitement about documentary film making in the Soviet Union in 1920. Its exhilarating and often hilarious montages, show Moscow people at work and play and the machines that keep the city running. //“It depicts a day in the life of the city framed by the experience of cinema, but it also about the role of cinema in society."// Vertov pioneers the use of all available cinematic techniques, split screen, slow motion, freeze and dissolve. In The Man With a Movie Camera, Vertov was more apprehensive with revealing process than revealing the sell image. He wanted the audience to understand how film works mechanically and technically as well as conceptually.
 * Man With A Movie Camera,** **Dziga Vertov, 1929.**