Dziga Vertov

Who was Dziga Vertov?

David Abelevich Kaufman — better known by his pseudonym Dziga Vertov, or Vertof — was a Soviet pioneer documentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary moviemaking and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical filmmaking cooperative which was active in the 1960s.

In the 2012 Sight and Sound poll, the critics voted Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera the 8th best film ever made.

Vertov's brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman were also noted filmmakers, as was his wife, Elizaveta Svilova.