Vertov, Dziga. Re cinema does not exist.
“We maintian that despite the comparativly long existence of cinematography as a concept, despite the large number of dramas- psychological, […]
02. Theory
Selections from writing by filmmaker/theorists on political media.
Vertov, Dziga. Re kino-eye.
“Until now, we have violated the movie camera and forced it to copy the work of our eye. And the […]
Vertov. Cine-Eye.
“I am the Cine-Eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world only as I can […]
Vertov. Kinoks: A revolution.
“You–filmmakers, you directors and artists with nothing to do, all you confused cameramen and writers scattered throughout the world….. A […]
Wollen, P. “Godard and COunter-Cinema,” re fiction
In the post-68 films, there seems to have been a kind of flattening out, so that fiction=acting=lying-=deception=representation=illusion=mystification=ideology. 506
Wollen, Peter. “G and Counter Cinema: Vent D’Est,” re diagesis
“The text becomes a composite structure […] using different codes and semantic systems. Moreover, these are not simply different, but […]
Wollen, Peter. “Godard and Counter Cinema,”
Some notes about the mean features of this counter-cinema… Narrative transivity Narrativev intransivity Identification Estrangement Transparency Foregrounding Single diegesis Multiple […]
Wollen, Peter. “Godard and Counter Cinema.” re audience thinking
“Godard’s cinema, broadly speaking, is within the modern tradition established by Brecht and Artaud, in their different ways, suspicious of […]