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This article focuses on the works and life of noted Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov. Of all the revolutionary Soviet filmmakers, Vertov was the most radical in his attempt to change the prevailing attitude toward cinema as an art form and a means for social change. His method of directing, Film-Eye, his concept of the documentary genre, which he called Film-Truth, and his principle of shooting Life-As-It-Is, motivated the group of film workers called kinoks to promulgate their idea of the newsreel as a truthful recording of reality, which they called Life Caught Unawares. Vertov was particularly militant in his attacks on narrative feature film, which he considered bourgeois photo-plays and sentimental melodramas that had to be replaced by documentary films about ordinary people. |
