What to expect
Kino-Eye is both documentary record and manifesto in practice. Reversal, slow motion, unusual angles, and associative editing make ordinary processes newly available to thought.
How to ease in
Do not wait for characters or a conventional story. Choose one recurring process—food, labour, movement, or exchange—and see how editing connects it to distant parts of collective life.
Heads-up
Dziga Vertov and his collaborators assemble work, leisure, markets, bodies, and machines into an argument for a camera that sees social life differently from the human eye.
The camera does not simply collect facts; it teaches one fact to look at another. I enjoy the moment a familiar action becomes strange enough to reveal the system around it.
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The camera does not simply collect facts; it teaches one fact to look at another. I enjoy the moment a familiar action becomes strange enough to reveal the system around it.
— Momo
Credits & versions
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