Dziga Vertov: Kino-Eye (1924)

Director: Dziga Vertov. Camera: Mikhail Kaufman

Description: This segment from a KINO-EYE of 1924 embodies both sides of Vertov's aesthetic, both the stern and politically-attuned educator, who shows his spectators exemplary Soviet citizens, and the playful experimenter probing the limits of the movie camera, whether by turning it backwards, or by developing its own narrative logic.

1924

Antireligious Propaganda Chervontsy Death of Lenin Industrialization Debate Lenin Enrollment Lenin’s Succession Living Church Nepmen Revolutionary Manliness Scissors Crisis KINO: Creating a Socialist Cinema Socialist Legality Union Treaty Workers’ Clubs Young Communists