CINEMA-TRUTH SHOULD BE A SURVEY OF THE WORLD EVERY FEW HOURS
The eye of the microscope penetrates where the eye of my movie camera cannot. The eye of the telescope reaches distant worlds, inaccessible to my naked eye. What about cameras then? What's its role in my assult on the visual world?
It arises as high-speed eye,
Kino-eye as cinema-analysis
kino-eye as the "theory of intervals"
Kino-eye as the theory of relativity on the screen
WE DEFINE THE FILM-OBJECT IN THESE WORDS: THE MONTAGE "I SEE"
The field of vision is life
Kino-eye is understood as "that which the eye doesn't see,"
as the microscope of time,
as the possibility of seeing without limits and distances,
as the remote control of movie cameras
as tele-eye,
as X-ray eye
as "life caught unawares"
- all cinematic means
- all cinematic inventions
- all methods and means that might serve to reveal and show the truth.
-Dziga Vertov, 1922-24