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Mikhail Kaufman in Dziga Vertov’s Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man with a Movie Camera)

Russia, 1929
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Dziga Vertov’s kino-pravda (“film truth”) concept was premised on the camera’s ability to reveal truth. It inspired both cinéma vérité and direct cinema, whic..

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