Filmikunsti ajalugu
Tried to undeerstand the effect of cinema. The film they used
and according to the legend, was ,,intolerance". Understood how griffith was using the film
language. How can i achieve the effect. Usge of editing to create metaphors. 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