When reading about the kino-eye, I couldn't help thinking about Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey because of lines such as "I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it."
If I understood correctly, the concept of the "kino-eye" is that what the camera sees is something new and more refined than our own sight. A camera perceives and explores this world in a manner entirely set apart from what we are capable of seeing. When viewing film we submit ourselves to what has been recorded through the eye of the camera, all the while detaching ourselves from our own sight as we become more immersed in what has been seen by the camera.
From both readings, I get the impression that there is a purpose behind the process, to alter and affect the viewer. Through the kino-eye we experience a forced perspective, unnatural to our normal way of seeing. Through montage, our perception of time becomes lost, as a montage forces an unnatural rhythm on us by sound and film edits.
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