Mikhail Kaufman

Mikhail Kaufman was a Soviet cinematographer and photographer In the 1920s after Mikhail Kaufman returned from the Russian Civil War his brother director Dziga Vertov offered him the opportunity to participate in his newsreel series KinoPravda as a cameraman Kaufman directed photography for several films including Vertovs Man with the Movie Camera The film is built around metareference and is full of innovative visual effects in it Kaufman acts as a cameraman and is seen shooting the film while walking on high bridges hanging off the side of a train climbing a smokestack and crawling underground with miners all in order to get the best shot Mikhail Kaufman directed three films Moscow 1927 In Spring 1929 and An Unprecedented Campaign 1931