Kinoks-- A Revolution
"The mechanical eye, the camera, rejecting the human eye as crib sheet, gropes its way through the chaos of visual events, letting itself be drawn or repelled by movement, probing, as it goes, the path of its own movement. It experiments, distending time, dissecting movement, or, in contrary fashion, absorbing time within itself, swallowing years, thus schematizing processes of long duration inaccessible to the normal eye, (Vertov 19).
What new thing can you explain?
Vertov's manifesto discusses the importance of revolutionizing film in terms of using the camera past the capabilities of the human eye. In order to change the future of film, the camera needs to not limit the spectator, rather it needs to move and become a storytelling element. In contemporary film, this is a concrete aspect of filmmaking today.
