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Dziga Vertov Biography

Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов; born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972.

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I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

Eye, Likes, Machines, Mechanical, World

Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Art, Cares, Essence, Technique

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

Cameras, Endlessly, Eye, Eyes, Improve, Perfect

Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope. . . now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

Deeply, Eye, Eyes, Future, People, Taken

Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.

Conventions, Eye, Mean, Order, Temporal

My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

Fresh, Perception, Towards, Way, World

I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. . . I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. . . This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations. . . Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

Horse, Machine, Movements, Moving, Recording, Running

Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

Explain, Perception, Space, Time, Way, World

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

Bourgeois, Drama, Film, Live, Live Life, Long

It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.

Show, Shows, Simple, Truth, Truth Is

I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things-I crawl under them-I climb on them-I am on the head of a galloping horse.

Alone, Crawl, Eye, Forever, Horse, Today