Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov born David Abelevich Kaufman was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director as well as a cinema theorist His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking and the Dziga Vertov Group a radical filmmaking cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972 The independent exploratory style of Vertov influenced and inspired many filmmakers and directors The Dziga Vertov Group borrowed his name In 1960 Jean Rouch used Vertovs filming theory when making Chronicle of a Summer His partner Edgar Morin coined Cinéma vérité term when describing the style using direct translation of Vertovs KinoPravda The Free Cinema movement in the United Kingdom during the 1950s the Direct Cinema in North America in the late 1950s and early 1960s and the Candid Eye series in Canada in the 1950s all essentially owed a debt to Vertov In the 2012 Sight Sound poll critics voted Vertovs Man with a Movie Camera 1929 the 8th best film ever made