Dziga Vertov
Directing
Born January 3, 1896 in Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) 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. The independent, exploratory style of Vertov influenced and inspired many filmmakers and directors. The Dziga Vertov Group borrowed his name. In 1960, Jean Rouch used Vertov's filming theory when making Chronicle of a Summer. His partner Edgar Morin coined Cinéma vérité term when describing the style, using direct translation of Vertov’s KinoPravda. The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.
Filmography
The Return of Vertov
Self (archive footage)
Lluvia de jaulas
Ziv Zero
All Vertovs
(archive footage)
World Without a Game
Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam
Self (archive footage)
For You at the Front!
In the Area of Height A
Three Heroines
Lullaby
Three Songs About Lenin
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas
Man with a Movie Camera
The Eleventh Year
A Sixth Part of the World
Stride, Soviet!
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. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean
Soviet Toys
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema
Kino-Pravda No. 17
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel
Kino-Pravda No. 15
Kino-Pravda No. 14
Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution
Kino-Pravda No. 12
Kino-Pravda No. 11
Kino-Pravda No. 10
Kino-Pravda No. 9
Kino-Pravda No. 8
Kino-Pravda No. 7
Kino-Pravda No. 6
Kino-Pravda No. 5
Kino-Pravda No. 4
Kino-Pravda No. 3
Kino-Pravda No. 2
Kino-Pravda No. 1
The History of the Civil War
Literaturno-instruktorskiy agitparokhod vtsik 'Krasnaia Zvezda'
The Brain of Soviet Russia
The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh
Protsess Mironova
Anniversary of the Revolution