Kino-Eye

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Kino-Eye was a Soviet avant-garde film movement led by Dziga Vertov that championed documentary realism and the use of the camera as a tool to reveal truth through innovative editing and non-fiction imagery.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Soviet avant-garde movement
film movement
aim to create a new perception of reality
to reveal truth through the camera
associatedWith Soviet montage theory NERFINISHED
associatedWork Kino-Pravda newsreel series NERFINISHED
Man with a Movie Camera NERFINISHED
coreConcept camera as eye
cinematic truth
documentary realism
kino-pravda NERFINISHED
non-fiction imagery
countryOfOrigin Soviet Union
documentationStyle observational recording of everyday life
emphasis capturing everyday life
innovative editing
location shooting
montage
genre avant-garde cinema
hasKeyMember Dziga Vertov NERFINISHED
historicalContext early Soviet cinema
influenced cinéma vérité
direct cinema
documentary film theory
influencedBy Marxist ideology
Russian Revolution NERFINISHED
languageOfName Russian
leader Dziga Vertov NERFINISHED
meaningOfName cinema-eye
method fragmentation and reassembly of reality through editing
use of mechanical eye instead of human eye
use of newsreel footage
use of non-actors
movementDomain cinema
documentary film
opposedTo scripted fiction film
theatrical acting
philosophicalStance anti-illusionism in cinema
faith in objectivity of the camera
productionMode collective filmmaking
relatedConcept film as social tool
mechanical eye
relatedToPerson Elizaveta Svilova NERFINISHED
Mikhail Kaufman NERFINISHED
sloganOrMotto life caught unawares
timePeriod 1920s

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Dziga Vertov developedConcept Kino-Eye
The Eleventh Year movement Kino-Eye
Dziga Vertov notableWork Kino-Eye