Le ciné-œil de la révolution – Écrits sur le cinéma

Dziga Vertov is both well known for his film The Man with a Camera (1929) and poorly known as his work is profuse, multiple, scattered. From a selection of his texts, either unpublished or whose translations have been revised and completed, accompanied by a critical apparatus allowing them to be situated in the debates of their time as well as to perceive their promises for ours, this book wishes to put Vertovian thought in its complexity back into circulation. His attempt to capture "life out of the blue", the "facts", in order to bring out a "Cine-Truth" based on the paired gaze of the "Cine-Oeil" and the analytical power of editing, here follows a path which goes from the years 1910-1920 to the years 1930-1950, from its pioneering role, in tune with political events, to its progressive marginalization.

Vertov's project to seize techniques for recording, editing and transmitting images and sounds, in order to "organize" the sight and hearing of workers and make them participate in the new social order resulting from the 1917 revolution, today finds new light in the perspective of a “media theory” which studies the technical articulations of the forms of experience and knowledge.
The volume is enriched by numerous iconographic documents from the Dziga Vertov Collection of the Österreichisches Filmmuseum in Vienna.

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Francois Ekchajzer, Telerama

Dziga Vertov (1896-1954) is a Soviet avant-garde filmmaker and futurist, whose work influenced the history of documentary film.