Filmikunsti ajalugu
Revolutionary
idea: discovery of a cinematic language.
The kuleshov experiments:
· 1: the expressionless face.
· 2: three shots, happy man, revolver, sad man
· 3: creation of artificial landscapes by editing together shots of toally different locations
Eisenstein:
Seleced filmiography: strike! Battleship potemkin, october, alexander nevsky, ivan the terrible
part 1, ivan the terrible part 2
During his filmmaking career esenstein was under permanent critiscism from the soviet
authorities because his approach was considered to be formalistic and arty. His american
adventure was a largely faailure.
The battleship potemkin:
Divided in 5 acts, film based on editing rather than narration. Gropus shots juxtaposed with
etreme close-ups, multiple directions of movements, manipulation of time for dramatic
purpose. High amount of shots. 86 min long film contained 1375 shots.
Psychologial manipulation of time and showing the enemies not as human beings and the
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