These two readings explored the significance of photography and paintings. Dziga Vertov says that the main thing in film is sensory exploration of the world. The kino-eye is used to explore the chaos of visual aspects that fill space. The kino-eye lives and moves in time and space, as it gathers information. This shows how our eye sight is fixed, but we will always be able to improve our technology, especially cameras. Andre Bazin Talk about realism and perspective as shown in medieval arts. Cinema is often interpreted as a language. People can construct different meanings of images through different angles and settings in nature.

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