Dziga Vertov
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Dziga Vertov was a Russian-Soviet filmmaker in the early 20th century who pioneered experimental documentary techniques and rejected traditional narrative storytelling in favor of showing raw footage of everyday life. His innovative approach to film as a visual language rather than a recording device influenced the development of documentary cinema and avant-garde filmmaking.
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- Born
- 1896-01-02
- Died
- 1954-02-12
- Works
- 8
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Directing · 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…
Known for
- The Return of Vertov — Self (archive footage)2024
- All Vertovs — (archive footage)2002
- World Without a Game — Self (archive footage)1966
- The Magic Beam — Self (archive footage)1963
- Kino-Pravda No. 81922
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Denis Arkadyevich Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December 1895] – 12 February 1954), better known as Dziga Vertov, 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. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.
In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the eighth-greatest film ever made.
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1896 births1954 deathsBurials at Novodevichy CemeteryDeaths from cancer in the Soviet UnionFilm theoristsJews from the Russian EmpirePeople from BiałystokRecipients of the Order of the Red StarRussian experimental filmmakersSoviet cinematographersSoviet documentary film directorsSoviet film directors