Dziga Vertov
Directing
Biography
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.
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Movies (70)
The Return of Vertov2024Self (archive footage)
All Vertovs2002(archive footage)
World Without a Game1966Self (archive footage)
The Magic Beam1963Self (archive footage)
For You at the Front!1942Directing
In the Area of Height A1941Directing
Three Heroines1938Directing- In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze1937Directing
Lullaby1937Directing
Three Songs About Lenin1934Directing
Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas1930Directing- Sound team program No 21930Directing
Man with a Movie Camera1929Directing
The Eleventh Year1928Directing
A Sixth Part of the World1926Directing
Stride, Soviet!1926Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda1925Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story1925Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin1925Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda1924Directing
Kino Eye1924Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean1924Directing
Soviet Toys1924Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality1924Directing
Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema1924Directing- First May in Moscow1923Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 171923Directing- Goskinokalendar1923Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel1923Directing
Kino-Pravda No. 151923Directing