Our eyes see very little and very badly โ so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
Dziga VertovI am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see
Dziga VertovThe film drama is the opium of the peopleโฆdown with bourgeois fairy-tale scenariosโฆlong live life as it is!
Dziga Vertov