Kino-Eye

Kino-Eye (1924)

Киноглаз

Promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centering on the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to 'buy from the cooperative' as opposed to the Public Sector, promoting temperance, and helping poor widows. Experimental portions, projected in reverse, feature the un-slaughtering of a bull and the un-baking of bread.

Date of release
1924-10-31
TMDB
6.7 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Dziga Vertov

Interesting facts

Kino-Eye is a 1924 Soviet silent documentary film directed by Dziga Vertov and shot by cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman. This experimental film, which laid the groundwork for Vertov's principles of documentary filmmaking, received mixed reviews from critics and film scholars.

Production

While preparing the proposal for Kino-Eye, Dziga Vertov wrote that it would be the world's first film shot without actors, costume designers, set designers, or makeup artists; as a director, he would not need studio soundstages or sets, because the film's characters would exist in real life.

In 1923, four members of the film crew arrived in the village of Pavlovskoye. The filmmakers were drawn to this area not only because of the picturesque landscapes of the Istra, but also because one of the first Young Pioneer camps in the USSR was located on the riverbank.

Vertov's crew stayed in Pavlovskoye and traveled to the pioneer camp every morning. The filmmakers urged children and adults alike not to pay any attention to them; the filming took place in a natural setting, without any staged scenes. The film, widely regarded as experimental and shot in accordance with Dziga Vertov's theory of "life caught unawares", was released in 1924.

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