Man With The Movie Camera
Man with the movie camera and Kinoks by Vertov:
Vertov takes the Kino-eye as perfect and superior to that of the human eye. The scene where the woman washes her face while here eyes were opening and closing then the camera lens opens and closes, it emphasizes that the camera lens is like the human eye but the better version of human sight. What makes it different from the human eye according to Vertov is that it records and transcends time and space.
He believed in the concept of filming factual real life moments and not fiction. In Man with the Movie Camera there is no acting. It is an arrangement of images that is skilfully combined together to create a visual phenomena of fresh perceptions that one will not get to see with the naked eye. Vertov was interested in creating a new world with film making and therefore uses editing like double exposure, split screens, tracking shots, slow and fast motion, because this was not how the human eye saw ordinary things. He did not want to copy what he states as the human’s eye’s work but instead liberating what we get to see by drifting away from copying by being experimental. …show more content…
In the Man with the Movie Camera the scenes of the cutting of hair representing the cutting of images in film, sewing representing the editing of putting images together and finally sharpening of the axe, filing of the nails, cleaning of the shoes represents the fine tuning final touch ups of the film. Those scenes emphasised the production of how movies are edited and ‘cleaned up’. These scenes are what are known as linkage editing which creates intellectual montage. Another example of intellectual montage was the divorce scene. The screen split with the top half having a tram coming towards you the viewer and then the bottom half has the tram moving across the screen, the different directions in which the trams are shown represents a split, two individuals taking two different
Vertov takes the Kino-eye as perfect and superior to that of the human eye. The scene where the woman washes her face while here eyes were opening and closing then the camera lens opens and closes, it emphasizes that the camera lens is like the human eye but the better version of human sight. What makes it different from the human eye according to Vertov is that it records and transcends time and space.
He believed in the concept of filming factual real life moments and not fiction. In Man with the Movie Camera there is no acting. It is an arrangement of images that is skilfully combined together to create a visual phenomena of fresh perceptions that one will not get to see with the naked eye. Vertov was interested in creating a new world with film making and therefore uses editing like double exposure, split screens, tracking shots, slow and fast motion, because this was not how the human eye saw ordinary things. He did not want to copy what he states as the human’s eye’s work but instead liberating what we get to see by drifting away from copying by being experimental. …show more content…
In the Man with the Movie Camera the scenes of the cutting of hair representing the cutting of images in film, sewing representing the editing of putting images together and finally sharpening of the axe, filing of the nails, cleaning of the shoes represents the fine tuning final touch ups of the film. Those scenes emphasised the production of how movies are edited and ‘cleaned up’. These scenes are what are known as linkage editing which creates intellectual montage. Another example of intellectual montage was the divorce scene. The screen split with the top half having a tram coming towards you the viewer and then the bottom half has the tram moving across the screen, the different directions in which the trams are shown represents a split, two individuals taking two different