Kino Eye
About Kino Eye
Dziga Vertov's silent documentary follows a Young Pioneer troop. The children paste up posters, hand out leaflets, tell people to buy from the cooperative, push temperance, and help poor widows. Some shots run backward: a bull is un-slaughtered, and bread is un-baked.
Cast & crew
More about Kino Eye
Mikhail Kaufman shot it. Yelizaveta Svilova edited it. Vertov wrote, while planning it, that he wanted a film without actors, costumes, sets, or makeup. The first public screening was at the Khudozhestvenny cinema in Moscow; people from the village of Pavlovskoye were in the audience. Also known as Kino-Eye: Life Caught Unawares.
Themes
Reviews
The film drew mixed reviews from critics and from other filmmakers.
Look
Mikhail Kaufman shot the film, including the reverse-motion passages.
Technique
Sequences are printed in reverse so that slaughter and baking run backward.
Notes
- The Russian title is Кино-глаз.
- Reviews at the time were mixed.
