Dziga Vertov, 1918

“I am the camera’s eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things–I crawl under them–I climb on them–I am on the head of a galloping horse–I burst at full speed into a crowd–I run before running soldiers–I throw myself down with the aero planes–I fall and I fly at one with the bodies falling or rising through the air. “