Watch Dziga Vertov’s A Man with a Film Digicam: The eighth Finest Movie Ever Made
Of all of the cinematic pathblazers to emerge during the early years of the Soviet Union – Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Lev Kuleshov – Dziga Vertov (né Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman, 1896–1954) was probably the most radical. The placeas Eisenstein – as seen in that movie college standard Battleship Potemkin – used montage editing to create…