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Dziga Vertov

21 December 1895-12 February 1954

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Art is the process of seeking for the essence of one's own technique.

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The Camera is a corrective to the eyes, which see very little and very badly. It penetrates more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

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Cinema is grounded in the notion that we cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

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The Director is an eye, a mechanical eye, a machine that shows you a world the way only the director can see it. He approaches and pulls away from objects. He creeps under them. He moves alongside a running horse's mouth.