Filmikunsti ajalugu
countryside. Agit trains-theatergroup performing a pie ce of communism.
New generation of filmmakers start to create avant-grade: verto, kuleshov, pudovkin
dovzheno, eisenstein
The age of soviet montage cinema: the classical perion 1920s.
The idea behind montage cinema:
· promotion of communist ideals via the means of film
· editing is the tool to achieve new expression, a new cinematic language
· two tendencis: eisenstein: reproduction of historiccal events in feature films.
· Vertov: radical realism, only documentary films, feature films are ,,impotent"
The kuleshov workshop
Lev kuleshov was one of the few pre-revolutionary filmmakers who stayed in russia
Gave a workshop at the VGIK that turned out to be influential for Soviet Cinema
Aim: tried to define general principles. Showed films to people and tried to understand how to
they interact to those images. Tried to undeerstand the effect of cinema. The film they used