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