Dziga Vertov

Vertov developed an approach to cinema as an art form that shunned traditional or Western narrative in favor of images from real life influencing the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making during the 1920’s. Vertov’s influence in particular on modern film is so ubiquitous as to be almost invisible: hundred of directors in documentary and fiction have explored ideas which he and his crew opened up, probably without knowing it.
One of his films made it to our All-Time Best Films list :
Man With A Movie Camera