I found this excerpt by Dziga Vertov fascinating. When he mentions that "the use of the camera as a kino-eye; more perfect than the human eye.." I don't think he means in the eye is flawed or is less in value to a camera, he means that when you pair an artistic eye and liberate the constraints of replicating things the way you normally see them extraordinary things can happen. I take from the excerpt, that in ukraine/russia in 1919, people who shoot video were merely recording things the way the are used to seeing them. Kino-eye is a call to have freedom of expression by using the camera to record things in ways never imagined and to witness how the camera can change and enhance things. We all know a Hollywood bomb explosion doesn't look as cool in real life. I am almost positive that before kino-eye, recordings of bombs exploding were pretty boring. I love that Vertov is challenging the way things had been done for so long. He strives to no longer replicate life through a recording of it, but enhance life through the freedom of recording it experimentally.
Serena Milan
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