Dziga Vertov, 1918

"I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things--I crawl under them--I climb on them--I am on the head of a galloping horse--I burst at full speed into a crowd--I run before running soldiers--I throw myself down with the aero planes--I fall and I fly at one with the bodies falling or rising through the air. "