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Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov

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Kinoks: A Revolution (Dziga Vertov, 1922)

     You—filmmakers, you directors and artists with nothing to do, all you confused cameramen and writers scattered throughout the world,      You—theater audiences, patient as mules beneath the burden of the emotional experiences offered you,      You—impatient proprietors of theaters not yet bankrupt, greedily snatching at leftovers from the German, or more rarely, the American table—      You—exhausted by memories, await with dreamy sighs the moon of some new six-act production...(nervous folk are requested to shut their eyes).      You're waiting for something that will not come; the wait is pointless.

                    A friendly warning:                     Don't hide your heads like ostriches.                     Raise your eyes,                     Look around you—                     There!                     It's obvious to me                     as to any child                     The innards,                     the guts of strong sensations                     are tumbling out                     of cinema's belly,                     ripped open on the reef of revolution.                     See them dragging along,                     leaving a bloody trail on the earth                     that quivers with horror and disgust.                     It's all over.