Mikhail Kaufman
Directing
Born September 5, 1897 in Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire (now Poland)
Mikhail Kaufman was a Soviet cinematographer and photographer. In the 1920s, after Mikhail Kaufman returned from the Russian Civil War, his brother director Dziga Vertov offered him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series Kino-Pravda as a cameraman. Kaufman directed photography for several films, including Vertov's Man with the Movie Camera. The film is built around meta-reference and is full of innovative visual effects: in it, Kaufman acts as a cameraman and is seen shooting the film while walking on high bridges, hanging off the side of a train, climbing a smokestack and crawling underground with miners – all in order to get the best shot.
Filmography
All Vertovs
(archive footage)
World Without a Game
Self
An Unprecedented Campaign
In Spring
Man with a Movie Camera
The Cameraman
The Eleventh Year
Moscow
A Sixth Part of the World
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda
Kino Eye
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Kino-Pravda No. 6