derivation the name "the man w/ the video camera" is derived from the famous work of russian constructivist filmmaker dziga vertov "the man with the movie camera". vertov conceptualized cinematographic apparatus as a new form which not only challenges the perception of the world but reorganizes it by reestablishing the images of it throughout cinematic processes. for vertov cinema appeared as a medium to intervene the mechanical productive forces of the early twentieth century and to be a part of this mechanical mode of production. in this sense, vertov issued the concept of "camera-eye" (kino-glatz) which referred to the filming of everyday images (life caught unawares/ life as itself/ life facts) and reorganizing them through cinematographic editing processes and constructing a new and cinematographic reality (film-facts). this was clearly a political task; to understand the mechanical modern world which is incomprehensible for the naked human body, to be a part of the machinery which changes the world, to gain a sight without distance and limits, to intervene the reality itself by altering its images, and to transform the everyday life by being a part of it's own productive forces -to liberate the reality, the images and the self. video is haunted by the ghost of dziga vertov. in a world of electronic images constructed by televisual apparatus, at a certain moment when our personal/collective memory is annihilated by the regime of permanent present time organised through televisual images, video enables us to remember what happens in everyday life. this is not a form of permanent memory like once the photographic and cinematographic images meant to be. it is an ephemeral one; one remembers what happens just at the time when the event takes place, realizes what happens at that very moment and than forgets it. video is a new form of memory directed towards everday life. once we possess the images of the moment -sequences out of an accelerated flow of time, we slow down the images and see how things move so fast, what really happens, and catch the cracks between the blocks of time and space. amazing, breathtaking. once such a personal memory is possesed through electronic images, video enables us to re-organize it. construct a new reality from the traces/proofs/ruins of another. video produces a new form of time and space on the traces of everday life. just like somebody else has done before. ...i am camera-eye, i am a mechanical eye, i, a machine, show you the world as only i can see it

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