Aspectuality, having many aspects, implies anarchy. Vertov, being a Bolshevik believer, of course would roll in his grave at the thought. But Wittgenstein's philosophy illuminates Vertov's cinematic ...practice and shows it to be a kind of aspectuality based on mechanical vision, the kino-eye. Sheehan begins his investigation of Vertovean framing with an exploration of how he defines montage and trace Wittgenstein's investigations of aspect perception.
Two Dziga Vertov films--"The Man With the Movie Camera" and "Three Songs About Lenin"--are discussed. In his films, which had a personal tone and unconventional structure incompatible with the ...Communist Party, Vertov developed a unique cinematic language that has inspired many later filmmakers.
Avant-garde cinema in Israel encountered Zionism, and the result made the film industry stronger economically but blunted the movement's philosophical edge. Contemporary Israeli cinema is dominated ...by what may be called the New Sensibility, which resisted the fixation with death prominent in Russia and France. Israeli political films radically critique the Zionist consensus.
Roberts reviews Dziga Vertov: Die Vertov-Sammlung im Osterreichischen Filmmuseum/The Vertov Collection at the Austrian Film Museum edited by Thomas Tode and Barbara Wurm.
