"Kino-Pravda" and Seeing the Unseen Reality

Dziga Vertov's experimental newsreel sought to free film from the influences of theatre and literature and capture the true reality.

The opening to Kino-Pravda No. 5, showing someone reading a fake newspaper with the newsreel’s introductory information on it.

When we discuss film today it is almost impossible not to talk about great pictures as you would a novel or a play. Films can live and die on the symphonies that play over its scenes, the strength of the acting within, and if the…