“…Vertov argued that the language of cinema was predicated on cinema's unique capability of recording scenes that mimicked real-time movement, which could then be rearranged, speeded up, slowed down, double exposed, etc. The product of this exercise is a film that does not represent a copy of the world, but a renewed examination of it (Hicks 2007). The 'truth' that is expressed in this approach is not a pro-filmic reality, but the reality that is constituted through the medium itself, the truth of cinema (Vertov 1984).…”