I found in reading the article by Stan Brakhage that I found myself wishing to have this eye "unruled by man made laws." The thought of having the ability to see things unobjectively and through an untainted vision is something that is actually quite stimulating to think about. Everything we see, we identify right away or search for an answer that can help us identify to the best of our ability. The "Metaphor on Vision" is actually something that I can really relate to and want to learn more about in the sense that from birth we are constantly being told to grow up and to start to drastically remove our creativity and desire to explore, we begin to settle for what we have been told, and as a culture that becomes dangerous for our souls.
In the article by Dziga Vertov I wasn't as emotionally charged when reading it. The idea of a kino-eye or that film has the ability to see things in an unfiltered sense I found to be exciting but also somewhat contradicting. Isn't the filmographer looking through a filtered sense of objectivity? How can it be so pure? I found this article to be intriguing in the sense of learning about something I had no knowledge of in the past but I also felt like it didn't really strike any cords with me in the way that the reading by Stan Brakhage did.
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