Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov (1896–1954) was one of the most prominent Russian and Ukrainian avant-garde film directors and a documentary film pioneer. In “We: Variant of a Manifesto,” the Kinoks call to replace the “visible staging of life phenomena” with real life, captured by an impersonal mechanical cine-eye. In 1927, Vertov was fired from Sovkino for – as publicly stated – failing to submit the script for the Man with a Movie Camera on time. At the invitation of the Odesa Film Studio, he moved to Ukraine, where he made his pinnacle works The Eleventh Year (1928), Man with a Movie Camera (1929), and Enthusiasm: The Symphony of Donbas (1930).