DJ Spooky - Alexander Dovzhenko’s Earth (Zemlya)

Like the film scores I’ve done for ther other Russian films (Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Glaz, and Sinfonia Dombassa) the first thing that struck me when I began research into how to re-score Dovzhenko’s masterpiece was the film’s extraordinary richness of context. “Earth“ brought home some of the issues I think of when one is reminded of the political turmoil and upheaval of that stunning Revolution that brought the Soviet Union into being. The promise and ultimate betrayal the Soviet Union presented of so many pe