TY - BOOK AU - Dziga Vertov AU - Dziga Vertov AU - Dolores Ibárruri AU - Nadezhda Krupskaya AU - V.I. Lenin AU - Joseph Stalin TI - Tri pesni o Lenine: Three Songs About Lenin AV - PN1997 .T750 1934 PY - 1934/// 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: Arguably Vertov's most personal work, the triptych celebrates the Soviet leader 10 years after his death as seen through the eyes of the people ; "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 ER -