Herinner me nog dat ik het vak montagetechnieken had op de hogeschool en we de opdracht kregen om een film mee brengen, om daar dan de montage van te bespreken.
Mijn leraar: ‘nu breng je wel de moeilijkste film mee om op dat vlak te analyseren… ‘ 😇😇
Waarna hij de hele film doorspoelde, op zoek naar die ene montagefout die er volgens hem inzat.
Het fascineerde me zo dat ik nu elke montagefout zie, soms tot m’n frustratie tijdens het kijken.
It is Mexico that, in the same element of Sunday celebration, mixes the blood of Christ in the morning mass in the cathedral with the streams of bull's blood in the afternoon bullfight in the city arena.
We, working in the USSR, are well aware that with our technical capabilities it will not be possible to begin practical implementation anytime soon.
#SergeiEisenstein on filming sound films
1929
Instead of accompaniment, Kabuki sparkles with the exposure of the switching technique. Switching the main influencing intention from one material to another, from one category of "irritants" to another.
One person, intelligent and cinematically knowledgeable, after watching parts of Eisenstein's films said to me: "This is very good. I like it very much, but what will the masses say? What will those for whom we work say?
The sphere of the new cinematography, as it turns out, is not the sphere of showing a phenomenon, or even social interpretation, but the possibility of an abstract social assessment... This will be the art of direct cinematic transmission of a slogan. Transmission as uncluttered and direct as the transmission of a thought by qualified words.