Gannaway_Kino Eye Response

Dziga Vertov's "Kino-Eye" reading is a great example of how considering the context of time can help in understanding the work. Given that Vertov lived during the birth of cinema I can imagine the boldness and enthusiasm his writing has. As Vertov mentions and as we have discussed in class, early cinema was largely inspired by theatre. Such terms like mise en scène are reflective of the theatre. However, I enjoy Vertov's attempt to reject or remove cinema from theatre. Vertov claims that the Kino-Eye has a power, along with editing and special effects, that is something greater than what theatre and the human experience can do. Like Vertov, I am interested in the powers of editing and the notion of creating a narrative or theme with imagery and sound from neither similar places or time. As we saw in such works like Leighton Pierce's "Viscera" (2004-05), the camera with editing can create a exploratory world different from typical human experience.