"Vertov is right. The task of the film and photgraphic camera is not to imitate the human eye, but to see and capture what the human eye usually does not see...The kino- and photo-eye can show us things from an unexpected point of view, in an unusual configuration, and we should make use of this capability...The point from which shooting took place became more complicated, more varied, but itslink with the human eye, withits usual circle of vision, was not broken."
"What the Eye Does Not See," Osip Brik, "Chego ne vidit glaz", Sovetskoe kino, no. 2, 1926, pp 22-23
Tsivian, Yuri. Lines of Resistance: Dziga Vertov and the Twenties. Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2005.
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There is an distinction between what the eyes do not see versus what the mind cannot perceive. If the eyes are receptors of knowledge on a certain level, interpreters of information into a certain neurological language, then the camera holds that parallel function. It is an enabler for the brain to accept new languages of perception.
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