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The Dziga Vertov Group (French: Groupe Dziga Vertov) was formed around 1969 by politically active filmmakers including Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin. Their films are defined primarily for Brechtian forms, Marxist ideology, and a lack of personal authorship.
Le Groupe Dziga Vertov est un collectif cinématographique fondé en 1968 par Jean-Luc Godard et Jean-Pierre Gorin afin de produire des films militants d'orientation maoïste.
- 1972
- France
- Depuis 1968
- Collectif d'artistes
- They’re not as impenetrable as you might think. With his fondness for Brechtian distancing techniques, thematic opacity and dense textual allusions, Godard’s work has never been the easiest to penetrate.
- Many of the styles and ideas were already present in Godard’s nouvelle vague films. While the films of the period were a departure for Godard in many ways, a number of elements were already common in the director’s earlier work.
- Godard and his collaborators tried to create a new working-class cinema. The DVG films are essential, ground-level documents of revolutionary movements in Europe post-May 1968, but their mode of exhibition is of equal significance.
- The great auteur embraced collaborative filmmaking. After spearheading the cult of the auteur with his Cahiers du Cinéma compatriots in the late 1950s, Godard ditched the idea of authorship in favour of a genuinely collaborative approach with the group, where the films were often credited to the group itself rather than any individual within it.
Mar 21, 2003 · —Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926. So much of what Dziga Vertov thought and wrote about cinema was written at the time of the greatest propagandist uproar in the twentieth century—the birth of the Modern Soviet State.
Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов, born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман, and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 [O.S. 21 December 1895] – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist.
Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), born as David Arkadjevic Kaufman in Bialystok (Poland), is today unanimously acclaimed as one of the greatest filmmakers in history. In theory and practice, Vertov and his kinoki group searched for the essential characteristics of film in relation to the other arts; they promoted a cinema capable of perceiving-creating ...
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Jan 2, 2016 · 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...
