TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dziga Vertov
AU  - Dziga Vertov
TI  - Kinoglaz: Kino Eye
AV  - PN1997 .K566 1924
PY  - 1924///
CY  - Soviet Union
PB  - Lobster Films, Flicker Alley, Blackhawk Films, EYE Film Institute, CNC, La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
N1  - Main feature, located on main features disc
N2  - From case cover:
A cinematographic poem in which Vertov lays the foundation of his Kino-Eye principles, the film shows the incredible force of his theories, but also the beauty and energy of a society fresh from the revolution, ready to face the challenges of a difficult future. Musical accompaniments by Robert Israel
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"I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only the machine can see it." - Dziga Vertov ("Kino-eye")
These words, written in 1923 (only a year after Robert Flahery's "Nanook of the North" was released) reflect the Soviet pioneer's developing approach to cinema as an art form that shuns traditional or Western narrative in favor of images from real life. They lay the foundation for what would become the crux of Vertov's revolutionary, anti-bourgeois aesthetic wherein the camera is an extension of the human eye, capturing "the chaos of visual phenomena filling the universe." Over the next decade-and-a-half, Vertov would devote his life to the construction and organization of these raw images, his apotheosis being the landmark 1929 film "The Man with the Movie Camera". In it, he comes closest to realizing his theory of "Kino-Eye", creating a new, more ambitious and more significant picture than what the eye initially perceives
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