I 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 VertovKino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.
Dziga VertovI'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it...I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth...This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations... Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.
Dziga Vertov