Kino-Eye (1924) A Sixth Part of the World (1926) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Enthusiasm (1931)
Spouse
Elizaveta Svilova
(m. 1923)
Family
Boris Kaufman (brother) Mikhail Kaufman (brother)
Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December 1895] – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.[1] 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. He was a member of the Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.
In the 2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera (1929) the eighth-greatest film ever made.[2]
Vertov's younger brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova.[3]
^Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 731–735. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
^"Sight & Sound Revises Best-Films-Ever Lists". studiodaily. 1 August 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
^McClane, Betsy A. (2013). A New History of Documentary Film (2nd ed.). New York: Bloomsbury. pp. 42, 47.
DzigaVertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O...
The DzigaVertov Group (French: Groupe DzigaVertov) was formed around 1969 by politically active filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre...
silent documentary film, directed by DzigaVertov, filmed by his brother Mikhail Kaufman, and edited by Vertov's wife Yelizaveta Svilova. Kaufman also...
American cinematographer and the younger brother of Soviet filmmakers DzigaVertov and Mikhail Kaufman. Kaufman was born into a family of Jewish intellectuals...
'cinema-eyes') were a collective of Soviet filmmakers in the 1920s, consisting of DzigaVertov, Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman. According to Annette Michelson...
more respected and auteurist, filmmakers such as Walter Ruttman and DzigaVertov gravitated towards works highlighting the beauty of cities, aiming to...
Walter Ruttmann directed Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis (1927), and DzigaVertov filmed Man with a Movie Camera (1929), experimental "city symphonies"...
acceptance; however, this position is at variance with Soviet film-maker DzigaVertov's credos of provocation to present "life as it is" (that is, life filmed...
Ленине) is a 1934 documentary sound film by Ukrainian-Russian filmmaker DzigaVertov. It is based on three admiring songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet...
Wind from the East (French: Le Vent d'est) is a 1970 film by the DzigaVertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative that, at its core, included Jean-Luc...
altogether new." While several Soviet filmmakers, such as Lev Kuleshov, DzigaVertov, Esfir Shub and Vsevolod Pudovkin put forth explanations of what constitutes...
editor. She is perhaps best known for making films with her husband DzigaVertov and her brother-in-law Mikhail Kaufman. She is also known for her documentaries...
to as The Sixth Part of the World, is a 1926 silent film directed by DzigaVertov and produced by Kultkino (part of Sovkino). Through the travelogue format...
26 December 2014. Taplin, Phoebe; RBTH, special to (14 August 2014). "DzigaVertov: Man with a movie camera". www.rbth.com. Retrieved 5 August 2019. ScreenPrism...
Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin and made under the auspices of the DzigaVertov Group. Narrated in a back-and-forth style by both Godard and Gorin, the...
Drive (David Lynch, 2001, USA) (105 votes) Man with a Movie Camera (DzigaVertov, 1929, USSR) (100 votes) Singin' in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly...
create what Nichols would later call the poetic mode. Documentary pioneer DzigaVertov came remarkably close to describing the mode in his "We: Variant of a...
which began as a film entitled Jusqu'à la victoire, undertaken by the DzigaVertov Group, the partnership of Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin who together made...
cinematographer and photographer. He was the younger brother of filmmaker DzigaVertov (Denis Kaufman) and the older brother of cinematographer Boris Kaufman...
Jacobs, Nick Zedd, Johan van der Keuken, Yvonne Rainer, Christine Vachon, DzigaVertov, and many others who created films that were outside of the commercial...
Shinya Tsukamoto Edgar G. Ulmer Gus Van Sant Agnès Varda Paul Verhoeven DzigaVertov King Vidor Jean Vigo Denis Villeneuve Thomas Vinterberg Luchino Visconti...
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