Comparing Vertov's Manifesto And The Kino Eye

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Rebecca Wilson 11/6/17 Humanities II The Keno Future Revolutions cause whole societies to call to question all they know of as their everyday. They can change the way people view their government, and affect their manner of working. Revolutionaries are those who voice these opinions. Vertov’s Manifesto and the Kino Eye’s vision was came up with after the Russian civil war, when their government was in constant upheaval. Their vision for film translates into a vision for life, a vision for a Utopian Society, where everyone lives equally, works like a well-oiled machine and acknowledges that daily life is art.
Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) was a filmmaker during an upheaval of societal values in Russia, the formation of the Soviet state. His career started recording natural sounds and other sound effects and as a newsreel filmmakers
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Art has its own visual language that almost all people can understand. Watching the film Man with a Movie Camera you get this sort of rhythm and beauty of the happenings of the everyday, they keep the viewer engaged with the aesthetic beauty of the inner workings of life. The scenes are fast paced and music is expertly matched up with the hubbub of the lively scenes. Many of the scenes in this film includes candid footage of people, or machines, they double expose and use other experimental techniques, to combine these ideas visually. The pace and visuals has a futurism very pro industrialization vibe. They believed the camera could show people the world in new ways, it was an enhancement of our eye and viewed life without the cloud of human opinion. They showed an admiration for machinery, its aesthetic, and its vast capability. The kinoks showed an obvious connection between humans and machine, whether it be the visual connections made in their films, or their talk of man working with and being enhanced by machine in We the

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