Kino-Pravda
Kino-Pravda (
Overview
Working mainly during the 1920s, Vertov promoted the concept of "kino-pravda", or "film-truth", through his newsreel series. His driving vision was to capture fragments of actuality which, when organized together, showed a deeper truth which could not be seen with the naked eye. In the Kino-Pravda series, Vertov focused on everyday experiences, eschewing
The episodes of Kino-Pravda usually did not include reenactments or stagings (one exception is the segment about the
Vertov intended an active relationship with his audience in the series — in the final segment he includes contact information — but by the fourteenth episode the series had become so experimental that some critics dismissed Vertov's efforts as "insane".[2]
The term "kino pravda", though it translates from Russian as "film truth", is not to be confused with the cinéma vérité movement in documentary film, which also translates as "film truth". Cinéma vérité was similarly marked by the intention of capturing reality "warts and all", but became popular in France in the 1960s.
References
- ^ a b Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. pp. 161–162.
- ISBN 9780415052986.
External links
- "Digitization of all 22 surviving issues of Kino-Pravda by the Austrian Film Museum".
- Kino-Pravda No.21 (1925) on YouTube