The greatest red documentary filmmaker of the 1920s, the greatest documentary filmmaker of the '20s, the greatest filmmaker … ever? In the alternate universe where vision trumps commerce and formal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Abelevich Kaufman – a.k.a. Dziga Vertov, a Ukrainian phrase meaning “spinning top” – is best known for his pioneering 1929 ...

The Samurai Come to Dallas, Cloisonné, a Spiny Lobster, and a Sake Fountain in Tow Audio By Carbonatix Godard’s Dziga Vertov collective exposes the shallowness of today’s activism. The best reason to ...

It was long presumed that a 12-minute snippet was all that still existed from the film. It’s not every day a silent film is discovered, restored, and screened for audiences 100 years since it was last ...

One of the works that documentary film pioneer Dziga Vertov shot in the beginning of the 20th century is today considered by some to be among the best films of all time, while his other films still ...

You may not know early Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov by name, but perhaps you’ve heard of his most famous film, “Man with a Movie Camera.” Released in 1929, this non-narrative silent film illustrates ...

The magic of Dziga Vertov’s ground-breaking film appeals to modern audiences more than ever, writes Phoebe Taplin. This month, for the first time, the British Film Institute’s “Sight and Sound” ...

The German artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) was one of the pioneers of photomontage, the practice of cutting and pasting together photographs and printed materials from newspapers, fashion magazines and ...

The story of the Kaufman brothers is dramatic fare. David became a figure in the history of filmmaking under the moniker "Dziga Vertov," while his cinematographer/brother Moishe pushed the ...

David Abelevich Kaufman – a.k.a. Dziga Vertov, a Ukrainian phrase meaning “spinning top” – is best known for his pioneering 1929 film “Man With a Movie Camera,” a snapshot of daily life in various ...

Dziga Vertov (born David Abelevich Kaufman) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité ...