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We are often asked where the name kino-eye comes from and what it means. It is a term with many meanings and interpretations. Dziga Vertov, a filmmaker best known for the classic A Man With A Movie Camera, used the term in a 1923 manifesto,

"I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it."

In 1929 Dziga Vertov explained the meaning in "From Kino-Eye to Radio-Eye,"

"Kino-eye = kino-seeing (I see through the camera) + kino-writing (I write on film with the camera) + kino-organization (I edit)." ... "Kino-Eye means the conquest of space, the visual linkage of people throughout the entire world based on the continuous exchange of visible fact" ... "Kino-Eye is the possibility of seeing life processes in any temporal order or at any speed" ... "Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction."

Joseph Schaub writes in The Futurist Roots of the Cyborg,

"...Kino-eye, then, is a cyborg construction that contains multiple positions for the production of film meaning."

The confluence of new and old media technologies are expanding our knowledge of the world and helping us see from perspectives that we could not have seen otherwise. Vertov's films works and writings were prescient.

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• Home • Articles • Photo Albums • Contact Us See Also: Innovation Catalyst		We are often asked where the name kino-eye comes from and what it means. It is a term with many meanings and interpretations. Dziga Vertov, a filmmaker best known for the classic A Man With A Movie Camera, used the term in a 1923 manifesto, "I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it." In 1929 Dziga Vertov explained the meaning in "From Kino-Eye to Radio-Eye," "Kino-eye = kino-seeing (I see through the camera) + kino-writing (I write on film with the camera) + kino-organization (I edit)." ... "Kino-Eye means the conquest of space, the visual linkage of people throughout the entire world based on the continuous exchange of visible fact" ... "Kino-Eye is the possibility of seeing life processes in any temporal order or at any speed" ... "Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction." Joseph Schaub writes in The Futurist Roots of the Cyborg, "...Kino-eye, then, is a cyborg construction that contains multiple positions for the production of film meaning." The confluence of new and old media technologies are expanding our knowledge of the world and helping us see from perspectives that we could not have seen otherwise. Vertov's films works and writings were prescient.

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