4/11/2023 0 Comments Soviet montage![]() He had been inspired to go into film making after watching Griffith’s Intolerance. Sergei Eisenstein at the age of 26, made his first feature film Strike, the first major film of the Montage movement. This mixed play between montage, perception, and meaning has come to be known as the “Kuleshov Effect.” The Legendary Alfred Hitchcock, decades apart and in America called it “pure cinema,” when the montage gives rise to meanings that exist nowhere to the eye, but only in the mind. They were known as the Kuleshov Group, Pudovkin was one of his students Eisenstein studied under him for three months, but was influenced” by Kuleshov for a lifetime sometimes as a rival later as a dear friend. In opposition to continuity editing Montage cutting often made overlapping or elliptical temporal relations. The main aspect of the Soviet Montage style was in the area of editing. ![]() Kuleshov’s experimented on how important editing is and he developed the central idea to the Montage theory and style. Kuleshov tried to systemize principles of editing based on emerging Hollywood style. A year later Lev Kuleshov joined the State Film School and formed workshops. Narkompros created the first State Film School in 1919. Narkompros, founded in 1918, controlled the Soviet film industry. The first leader of the revolution was Vladimir Lenin and he created the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in October 1917. The Russian filmmakers pushed themselves to the limit in the process of creating a new and different set of filmmaking tools. The young filmmakers in Russia were influenced by the American style of cinema with continuity editing and extrovert, athletic performances in westerns and comedies. Most Russian films made before the revolution were somber, slow-paced, melodramas that featured bravura performances by dominant stars. Young people of that time wanted to create a revolutionary style theme, form, and style. There were very few men and women in filmmaking who were focused on to make difference in filmmaking during the Russian Revolution of 1917. ![]() ![]() “Language is much closer to film than painting is” (Sergei Eisenstein). ![]()
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