Happy Birthday, Dziga Vertov! Born today in 1896 as David Abelevich Kaufman (also known as Denis Kaufman), this Russian Soviet cinema theorist was also a pioneer newsreel and documentary film director.
His film practices and theories had influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making as we know it to be today.
It also influenced the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. This was along with his pseudonym—a play on the Ukrainian words for “spinning top”.
Among his credits, Vertov is best known for writing and directing the 1929 Soviet silent black and white experimental film 'Chelovek s kino-apparatom' ('Man with a Movie Camera').
Edited by his wife, Russian filmmaker and film editor Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. It has no actors.
Vertov had been active from 1917–1954.
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