Dziga Vertov (Russian: Ð"зига Ð'ертов, born David Abelevich
Kaufman, Russian: Ð"Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ì Ð´ Ð Ì Ð±ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐšÐ°Ì ÑƒÑ„Ð¼Ð°Ð½,
and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December
1895] â€" 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and
newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices
and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary
movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making
cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the
Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.In the
2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie
Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.Vertov's younger brothers
Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was
his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova.Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman
into a family of Jewish lineage in Białystok, Poland, then a part of
the Russian Empire. He Russified his Jewish name David and patronymic
Abelevich to Denis Arkadievich at some point after 1918. Vertov
studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from
the invading German Army to Moscow in 1915. The Kaufmans soon settled
in Petrograd, where Vertov began writing poetry, science fiction, and
satire. In 1916â€"1917 Vertov was studying medicine at the
Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg and experimenting
with "sound collages" in his free time. He eventually adopted the name
"Dziga Vertov", which translates loosely from Ukrainian as 'spinning
top'.
Kaufman, Russian: Ð"Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ì Ð´ Ð Ì Ð±ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ ÐšÐ°Ì ÑƒÑ„Ð¼Ð°Ð½,
and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December
1895] â€" 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and
newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices
and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary
movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making
cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972. He was a member of the
Kinoks collective, with Elizaveta Svilova and Mikhail Kaufman.In the
2012 Sight & Sound poll, critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie
Camera (1929) the 8th best film ever made.Vertov's younger brothers
Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was
his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova.Vertov was born David Abelevich Kaufman
into a family of Jewish lineage in Białystok, Poland, then a part of
the Russian Empire. He Russified his Jewish name David and patronymic
Abelevich to Denis Arkadievich at some point after 1918. Vertov
studied music at Białystok Conservatory until his family fled from
the invading German Army to Moscow in 1915. The Kaufmans soon settled
in Petrograd, where Vertov began writing poetry, science fiction, and
satire. In 1916â€"1917 Vertov was studying medicine at the
Psychoneurological Institute in Saint Petersburg and experimenting
with "sound collages" in his free time. He eventually adopted the name
"Dziga Vertov", which translates loosely from Ukrainian as 'spinning
top'.
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