Dziga Vertov’s Kino-Eye

The article is about the differences between the perceptions perceived from the camera’s eye’s and the human’s eye's visuals in time and space. I found it very interesting how Vertov introduces the idea of how more perfect the “kino-eye” than human eyes. Vertov’s examples of how and why the human eye is imperfect compared to kino-eye are interesting as well.

This article focuses on film and video productions. The most important factor to perfecting or improving the visuals’ perceptions with kino-eye depends on the cameraman and the producer. The reason why that is, as mentioned in the article, because of the kino-eye’s abilities to zoom in and out and capture images from positions that a human eye cannot reach. Also, kino-eye’s ability of reviewing captured images while cutting-out certain scenes and/or attaching different ones together project various perspectives. In my opinion, Vertov’s complemented the camera perfectly.