Response to "Metaphors On Vision" and "Kino Eye"

I think the main issue that both of these works touch is the need to transcend the barrier of the the human eye and film lens; to explore beyond the set standard into a more dynamic and experimental environment that can communicate the ineffable.

With Dziga Vertov comes the idea of the camera being superior to the human eye. I do not think though, he meant it in a sense of tangible, concrete, physical intake but rather the camera's ability to be almost omnipresent. It's ability to give the viewer one or more perspectives where our eyesight becomes limited. It even gives the conductor of said camera a godlike attribute by allowing the handler to create spaces and moments; the power to even manipulate an audience.

Even with Stan Brakhage 'Metaphors On Vision', it states, "... there is a pursuit of knowledge foreign to language and founded upon visual communication, demanding a development of the optic mind, dependent upon perception in the original and deepest sense of the word." Both these works complement each other with their central theme of transcendence. The idea is to evolve visually.