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+ | |birth_date = {{birth date|1896|1|2|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |birth_place = Białystok, Russian Empire (now Poland) | ||
+ | |death_date = {{Death date and age|1954|2|12|1896|1|2|mf=y}} | ||
+ | |death_place = Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) | ||
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+ | '''David Abelevich Kaufman''' (Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман; Denis Kaufman; pseudonym Dziga Vertov; Дзи́га Ве́ртов) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and 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 in the 1960s. | ||
+ | Vertov's brothers [[Boris Kaufman]] and [[Mikhail Kaufman]] were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, [[Elizaveta Svilova]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Literature== | ||
+ | [[Image:Vertov_Dziga_Kino-Eye_The_Writings_of_Dziga_Vertov.jpg|thumb|258px|''Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov'', 1984. [[Media:Vertov_Dziga_Kino-Eye_The_Writings_of_Dziga_Vertov.pdf|Download]].]] | ||
+ | ===By Vertov=== | ||
+ | * "We: A Version of a Manifesto", 1922. Repr. in ''The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939'', eds. Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, Routledge, 1994. | ||
+ | ** [http://scribd.com/doc/151209538/Dziga-Vertov-manifestoNos-pdf "NoS: Variante de manifesto"]. (in Portuguese) | ||
+ | * "On Kinopravda", 1924. Repr. in ''Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov'', ed. Annette Michelson, trans. Kevin O'Brien, University of California Press, 1995. | ||
+ | * "The Man with the Movie Camera", 1928. Repr. in ''Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov'', ed. Annette Michelson, trans. Kevin O'Brien, University of California Press, 1995. | ||
+ | * ''[http://scribd.com/doc/107174763/Dziga-Vertov-El-cine-ojo El cine-ojo]'', trans. Francisco Llinas, Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 1974, 215 pp. (in Spanish) | ||
+ | * ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=550 Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov]'', ed. Annette Michelson, trans. Kevin O’Brien, University of California Press, 1984, 408 pp. | ||
+ | * ''[http://scribd.com/doc/177658286/DzigaVertov-Memoriasdeuncineastabolchevique Memorias de un cineasta bolchevique]'', trans. Joaquim Jordà, Madrid: Capitan Swing Libros, 2011. (in Spanish) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===On Vertov=== | ||
+ | ; Books | ||
+ | * Seth Feldman, ''Evolution of style in the early work of Dziga Vertov'', New York: Arno Press, 1977. | ||
+ | * Vasco Granja, ''Dziga Vertov'', Livros Horizonte, 1981, 96 pp. (in Portuguese) [http://grupograv.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/textos-vertov.pdf] | ||
+ | * Graham Roberts, ''The Man with the Movie Camera'', I. B. Tauris, 2001. | ||
+ | * Yuri Tsivian (ed.), ''Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties'', trans. Julian Graffy, Gemona: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2004, 422 pp. [http://books.google.sk/books?id=np9a1YWLE8YC&printsec=frontcover] | ||
+ | * Austrian Film Museum, Thomas Tode, Barbara Wurm (eds.), ''Dziga Vertov. The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum'', Vienna: Austrian Film Museum, 2006, 288 pp. (in German/English). [http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/data/uploads/Inhaltsverzeichnis%20Publikationen/Vertov%20Content.pdf Contents], [http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&j-dummy=reserve&content-id=1213111912881&kat=&typ=1215680370519&spid=1215680370347&ss1=y&reserve-mode=active], [http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1218679066711 Online version]. | ||
+ | * Jeremy Hicks, ''[http://store.free-college.org/noleech1.php?hidden=q:/507000/ad4c65fe2ec7b020ec7c13e41e746c78&hidden0=Jeremy+Hicks+Dziga+Vertov+Defining+Documentary+Film+KINO+-+The+Russian+Cinema++2007.pdf Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film]'', London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ; Journal issues | ||
+ | * Annette Michelson, Malcolm Turvey (eds.), ''October'' 121, Special Issue: New Vertov Studies (Summer 2007). [http://baimages.gulbenkian.pt/images/winlibimg.aspx?skey=&doc=56219&img=24762 Contents]. | ||
+ | ** Simon Cook, [http://www.academia.edu/2305468/Dziga_Vertovs_theory_of_vision "Our Eyes, Spinning Like Propellers: Wheel of Life, Curve of Velocities, and Dziga Vertov's Theory of the Interval"], pp 79–91. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ; Book chapters, Papers, Articles | ||
+ | * Erik Barnouw, ''Documentary: a History of the Non-fiction Film'', Oxford University Press, 1974. | ||
+ | * Malcolm Le Grice, ''Abstract Film and Beyond'', MIT Press, 1977. | ||
+ | * Peter Weibel, "Eisenstein, Vertov and the Formal Film", trans. Phillip Drummond, in ''[[Media:Film_as_Film_Formal_Experiment_in_Film_1910-1975.pdf|Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975]]'', London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979, pp 46-51. | ||
+ | * Gilles Deleuze, [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_1986_Towards_a_gaseous_perception.pdf|"Towards a gaseous perception"]], in ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=4844 Cinema 1: The Movement-Image]'', trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp 80-86, n229-230. | ||
+ | * Ben Singer. "Connoisseurs of Chaos: Whitman, Vertov and the 'Poetic Survey'", ''Literature/Film Quarterly'' 15:4 (Fall 1987), pp 247-258. | ||
+ | * Patricia R. Zimmermann, "Reconstructing Vertov: Soviet Film Theory and American Radical Documentary", ''Journal of Film and Video'' 44:1-2 (Spring-Summer 1992). | ||
+ | * William C. Wees, [http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft438nb2fr&chunk.id=d0e340&toc.depth=100&toc.id=d0e340&brand=ucpress "The Camera-Eye: Dialectics of a Metaphor"], in ''Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film'', University of California Press, 1992, pp 11-30. [http://dss-edit.com/plu/William_C._Wees_Light_Moving_in_Time_Studies_in_the_Visual_Aesthetics_of_Avant-Garde_Film__1992.pdf] | ||
+ | * Philip Vilas Bohlman, ''Music, Modernity, and the Foreign in the New Germany'', 1994, pp 121-152. | ||
+ | * Vlada Petric, [http://books.google.com/books?id=QOVjntJ2qYsC&pg=PA271 "Vertov's Cinematic Transposition of Reality"], in ''Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film'', ed. Charles Warren, Wesleyan University Press, 1996, pp 271-. | ||
+ | * Seth Feldman. "'Peace between Man and Machine': Dziga Vertov's ''The Man with a Movie Camera.''", in ''Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video'', eds. Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, Wayne State University Press, 1998, pp 40-53. | ||
+ | * Douglas Kahn, [[Media:Kahn_Douglas_1999_Russian_Revolutionary_Film.pdf|"Russian Revolutionary Film"]], in ''[[Media:Kahn_Douglas_Noise_Water_Meat_A_History_of_Sound_in_the_Arts_no_OCR.pdf|Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts]]'', MIT Press, 1999, pp 139-156. | ||
+ | * Jane de Almeida (ed.), ''[http://scribd.com/doc/172016424/Grupo-Dziga-Vertov Grupo Dziga Vertov]'', Sao Paulo: Witz, 2005. (in Portuguese) | ||
+ | * John MacKay. [http://www.kinokultura.com/articles/jan05-mackay.html "Disorganized Noise: ''Enthusiasm'' and the Ear of the Collective"], ''KinoKultura'' 7 (January 2005). | ||
+ | * John MacKay. [http://www.kinokultura.com/articles/apr05-mackay.html "The 'Spinning Top' Takes Another Turn: Vertov Today"], ''KinoKultura'' 8 (April 2005). | ||
+ | * John MacKay, "Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov's «Three Songs of Lenin» (1934) as a Stalinist Film", ''Film History: An International Journal'' 18:4 (2006), pp 376-391. | ||
+ | * Malcolm Turvey, [[Media:Turvey_Malcolm_2008_The_Revelationist_Tradition_Exegesis_II.pdf|"The Revelationist Tradition: Exegesis: II"]], in ''[http://bookza.org/dl/973664/ec4536 Doubting Vision Film and the Revelationist Tradition]'', Oxford University Press, 2008, pp 31-37. | ||
+ | * Irina Sandomirskaia, [http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:210999/FULLTEXT01.pdf "One Sixth of the World: Avant-garde Film, the Revolution of Vision, and the Colonization of the USSR Periphery during the 1920s (Towards a Postcolonial Deconstruction of the Soviet Hegemony)"], in ''From Orientalism to Postcoloniality'', ed. Kerstin Olofsson, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2008, pp 8-31. | ||
+ | * Yates McKee, [[Media:McKee_Yates_2009_Post-Communist_Notes_on_Some_Vertov_Stills.pdf|"Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills"]], in ''Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics'', eds. Beth Hinderliter, et al., Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009, pp 267-293. | ||
+ | * Christian Quendle, [http://scribd.com/doc/177676057/C-Quendler-Camera-Eye-Vertov "Rethinking the camera eye: ''dispositif'' and subjectivity"], ''New Review of Film and Television Studies'' 9:4 (December 2011), pp 395-414. | ||
+ | * Joshua Malitsky, "The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927", in ''Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations'', Indiana University Press, 2013. [http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806662] | ||
+ | * Lev Manovich, [http://softwarestudies.com/cultural_analytics/Manovich.Visualizing_Vertov.2013.pdf "Visualizing Vertov"], 2013, 38 pp. | ||
+ | * [http://seance.ru/names/vertov-dziga/ Articles on Vertov at Seance.ru]. (in Russian) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ; Documentary films | ||
+ | * ''Мир без игры'', dir. Sergei Drobashenko, 54 min, 1966. Documentary on Vertov. | ||
+ | * ''Дзига и его братья'', dir. Evgeny Tsymbal, 2002. | ||
+ | * ''Все Вертовы'', dir. Vladimir Nepevny, 2002. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==External links== | ||
+ | * [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2003/great-directors/vertov/ Vertov at Sense of Cinema] | ||
+ | * [http://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1218679066711 Dziga Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum] | ||
+ | * [http://www.vertov.ru/ Vertov.ru] | ||
+ | * [http://www.ubu.com/sound/vertov.html Dziga Vertov in UbuWeb Sound]: ''Enthusiasm!'' (1930), ''Laboratory Of Hearing'' (1916), ''Radio-Ear / Radio-Pravda'' (1916). | ||
[[Category:Experimental film|Vertov, Dziga]] | [[Category:Experimental film|Vertov, Dziga]] |
Revision as of 15:26, 5 January 2014
Born |
January 2, 1896 Białystok, Russian Empire (now Poland) |
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Died |
February 12, 1954 Moscow, Soviet Union (now Russia) | (aged 58)
David Abelevich Kaufman (Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман; Denis Kaufman; pseudonym Dziga Vertov; Дзи́га Ве́ртов) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and 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 in the 1960s.
Vertov's brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Elizaveta Svilova.
Literature
By Vertov
- "We: A Version of a Manifesto", 1922. Repr. in The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents, 1896-1939, eds. Ian Christie and Richard Taylor, Routledge, 1994.
- "NoS: Variante de manifesto". (in Portuguese)
- "On Kinopravda", 1924. Repr. in Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, ed. Annette Michelson, trans. Kevin O'Brien, University of California Press, 1995.
- "The Man with the Movie Camera", 1928. Repr. in Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, ed. Annette Michelson, trans. Kevin O'Brien, University of California Press, 1995.
- El cine-ojo, trans. Francisco Llinas, Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 1974, 215 pp. (in Spanish)
- Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov, ed. Annette Michelson, trans. Kevin O’Brien, University of California Press, 1984, 408 pp.
- Memorias de un cineasta bolchevique, trans. Joaquim Jordà, Madrid: Capitan Swing Libros, 2011. (in Spanish)
On Vertov
- Books
- Seth Feldman, Evolution of style in the early work of Dziga Vertov, New York: Arno Press, 1977.
- Vasco Granja, Dziga Vertov, Livros Horizonte, 1981, 96 pp. (in Portuguese) [1]
- Graham Roberts, The Man with the Movie Camera, I. B. Tauris, 2001.
- Yuri Tsivian (ed.), Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties, trans. Julian Graffy, Gemona: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2004, 422 pp. [2]
- Austrian Film Museum, Thomas Tode, Barbara Wurm (eds.), Dziga Vertov. The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna: Austrian Film Museum, 2006, 288 pp. (in German/English). Contents, [3], Online version.
- Jeremy Hicks, Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film, London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2007.
- Journal issues
- Annette Michelson, Malcolm Turvey (eds.), October 121, Special Issue: New Vertov Studies (Summer 2007). Contents.
- Book chapters, Papers, Articles
- Erik Barnouw, Documentary: a History of the Non-fiction Film, Oxford University Press, 1974.
- Malcolm Le Grice, Abstract Film and Beyond, MIT Press, 1977.
- Peter Weibel, "Eisenstein, Vertov and the Formal Film", trans. Phillip Drummond, in Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975, London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979, pp 46-51.
- Gilles Deleuze, "Towards a gaseous perception", in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, University of Minnesota Press, 1986, pp 80-86, n229-230.
- Ben Singer. "Connoisseurs of Chaos: Whitman, Vertov and the 'Poetic Survey'", Literature/Film Quarterly 15:4 (Fall 1987), pp 247-258.
- Patricia R. Zimmermann, "Reconstructing Vertov: Soviet Film Theory and American Radical Documentary", Journal of Film and Video 44:1-2 (Spring-Summer 1992).
- William C. Wees, "The Camera-Eye: Dialectics of a Metaphor", in Light Moving in Time: Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film, University of California Press, 1992, pp 11-30. [4]
- Philip Vilas Bohlman, Music, Modernity, and the Foreign in the New Germany, 1994, pp 121-152.
- Vlada Petric, "Vertov's Cinematic Transposition of Reality", in Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film, ed. Charles Warren, Wesleyan University Press, 1996, pp 271-.
- Seth Feldman. "'Peace between Man and Machine': Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera.", in Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video, eds. Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski, Wayne State University Press, 1998, pp 40-53.
- Douglas Kahn, "Russian Revolutionary Film", in Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts, MIT Press, 1999, pp 139-156.
- Jane de Almeida (ed.), Grupo Dziga Vertov, Sao Paulo: Witz, 2005. (in Portuguese)
- John MacKay. "Disorganized Noise: Enthusiasm and the Ear of the Collective", KinoKultura 7 (January 2005).
- John MacKay. "The 'Spinning Top' Takes Another Turn: Vertov Today", KinoKultura 8 (April 2005).
- John MacKay, "Allegory and Accommodation: Vertov's «Three Songs of Lenin» (1934) as a Stalinist Film", Film History: An International Journal 18:4 (2006), pp 376-391.
- Malcolm Turvey, "The Revelationist Tradition: Exegesis: II", in Doubting Vision Film and the Revelationist Tradition, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp 31-37.
- Irina Sandomirskaia, "One Sixth of the World: Avant-garde Film, the Revolution of Vision, and the Colonization of the USSR Periphery during the 1920s (Towards a Postcolonial Deconstruction of the Soviet Hegemony)", in From Orientalism to Postcoloniality, ed. Kerstin Olofsson, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2008, pp 8-31.
- Yates McKee, "Post-Communist Notes on Some Vertov Stills", in Communities of Sense: Rethinking Aesthetics and Politics, eds. Beth Hinderliter, et al., Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2009, pp 267-293.
- Christian Quendle, "Rethinking the camera eye: dispositif and subjectivity", New Review of Film and Television Studies 9:4 (December 2011), pp 395-414.
- Joshua Malitsky, "The Dialectics of Thought and Vision in the Films of Dziga Vertov, 1922-1927", in Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations, Indiana University Press, 2013. [5]
- Lev Manovich, "Visualizing Vertov", 2013, 38 pp.
- Articles on Vertov at Seance.ru. (in Russian)
- Documentary films
- Мир без игры, dir. Sergei Drobashenko, 54 min, 1966. Documentary on Vertov.
- Дзига и его братья, dir. Evgeny Tsymbal, 2002.
- Все Вертовы, dir. Vladimir Nepevny, 2002.
External links
- Vertov at Sense of Cinema
- Dziga Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum
- Vertov.ru
- Dziga Vertov in UbuWeb Sound: Enthusiasm! (1930), Laboratory Of Hearing (1916), Radio-Ear / Radio-Pravda (1916).