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Dziga Vertov
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Russian-Soviet documentary/avantgarde filmmaker (1896-1954)
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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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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- Male
- Origin
- Soviet Union
- Active from
- 1896
- Active to
- 1954
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David Abelevich Kaufman (Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман) (2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof (Russian: Дзи́га Ве́ртов, "spinning top") — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative which was active in the 1960s. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/D
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Encyclopedic overview
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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