Dziga Vertov's "Kino-Eye" gave me flashbacks to the Futurist Manifesto in both its language and its philosophy. I highly doubt that this was unintentional. One particular sentence that struck me as something straight from a futurist writer was "How can one not admire the automobile?" which today also strikes me as an extremely outdated sentiment. Humans have become able to coexist along analog devices for so long that we are no longer fascinated with them and that's honestly sad. We need to keep pushing forward and keep being fascinated. I really liked the idea that Vertov put forth that we are not going far enough with cameras. To attempt to replicate the human eye is stopping ourselves short. We need to figure out what the camera can do that the eye can't and push it beyond what we can even imagine. The camera's function is not to imitate reality but to enhance it.

I enjoyed the Brakhage reading but felt like it went a little bit over my head. It was talking about media and sex and love and I feel like those are very interesting and poignant connections but I wasn't given enough context or detail in the short reading.