Known as the founder of the film eye school is

Known as the founder of the film eye school, Giga Wiltoff.

Documentary director Giga Wiltoff compared the movie camera to the human eye, even better than the human eye. He advocated that filmmakers use cameras to "catch life by surprise", opposed artificial performances, and even opposed ordinary performance films (feature films), and praised newsreels.

The development of Eye School promoted the emergence of "editing" and the birth of the Montage School of Eisenstein and pudovkin, and the later Italian Neo-realism School was also deeply influenced by Eye School.

Early experience

Wiltoff's father is a librarian. Wiltoff has two younger brothers, the elder brother named Mikhail Kaufman, who was keen on photography since childhood, and then began to shoot documentaries from Wiltoff; The youngest is boris kaufman, who participated in the French avant-garde film movement and later became the famous American director Aria Kazan and the chief photographer of Sidney matt.

Wiltoff studied medicine and psychology in St. Petersburg in his early years. At the same time, he is also a futurist poet after Mayakovski.