Dziga Vertov
Born: 1896-01-03 in Bialystok, Grodno Province, Russian Empire
Died: 1954-02-11
Known For: Directing
Biography
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 many filmmakers and directors. The Dziga Vertov Group borrowed his name. In 1960, Jean Rouch used Vertov's filming theory when making Chronicle of a Summer. His partner Edgar Morin coined Cinéma vérité term when describing the style, using direct translation of Vertov’s KinoPravda. The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s, the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s, all essentially owed a debt to Vertov. In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.
Filmography
2024
- The Return of Vertov as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Lluvia de jaulas ... (Thanks)
2017
- Ziv Zero ... (In Memory Of)
2009
- Man with a Movie Camera: The Global Remake ... (Characters)
2002
- All Vertovs as (archive footage)
1966
- World Without a Game as Archive footage
1963
- The Magic Beam as Self (archive footage)
1942
- For You at the Front! ... (Director)
1938
- Three Heroines ... (Screenstory)
1937
- In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze ... (Director)
- Lullaby ... (Screenstory)
1934
- Three Songs About Lenin ... (Director)
1930
- Enthusiasm. Symphony of Donbas ... (Director)
- Sound team program No 2 ... (Director)
1929
- Man with a Movie Camera ... (Director)
1928
- The Eleventh Year ... (Writer)
1926
- Stride, Soviet! ... (Director)
- A Sixth Part of the World ... (Director)
1925
- Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 22: Lenin Is Alive in the Heart of the Peasant. A Film Story ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 23: Radio Pravda ... (Director)
1924
- Kino-Pravda No. 19: A Movie-Camera Race Moscow – Arctic Ocean ... (Director)
- Soviet Toys ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 20: Pioneer Pravda ... (Director)
- Kino Eye ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 18: A Movie-Camera Race Over 299 Metres and 14 Minutes and 50 Seconds in the Direction of Soviet Reality ... (Director)
- Lenin's Kino Pravda: Truth in Cinema ... (Director)
1923
- Kino-Pravda No. 17 ... (Director)
- Goskinokalendar ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 14 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 16: Spring Pravda. A Lyrical View Newsreel ... (Director)
- First May in Moscow ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 15 ... (Director)
- Give Us Air! ... (Director)
1922
- Kino-Pravda No. 5 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 7 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 8
- Kino-Pravda No. 1 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 10 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 4 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 13: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. A Film Poem Dedicated to the October Revolution ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 3 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 6 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 9 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 2 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 11 ... (Director)
- Kino-Pravda No. 12 ... (Director)
1921
- The History of the Civil War ... (Director)
1919
- Literaturno-instruktorskiy agitparokhod vtsik 'Krasnaia Zvezda' ... (Director)
- The Exposure of the Relics of Sergius of Radonezh ... (Director)
- The Brain of Soviet Russia ... (Director)
- Protsess Mironova ... (Director)
1918
- Anniversary of the Revolution ... (Director)
- Kino-week ... (Director)