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Experiment al cinema iet Sov : y r o Hist ol a m Cine age Scho t Mon Soviet Mon tage Schoo 1 History of t l / Theory he World’s Cinema

Coming back to Expressionism Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 2

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1888 -1931) 0 1922 Nosferatu (essentially Bram Stoker’s Dracula) 0 in Hollywood - introducing the poetics of German expressionism 0 1927 Sunrise 0 1928 4 Devils 0 1930 City Girl Film Genres-Prewar Europe-German Expressionism 3

Sunrise (1927) 0 The scenery? 0 The dichotomies? – as a construction of the world 0 Femme fatale? 0 The poetics? 0 Most beautiful scenes? Film Genres-Prewar Europe-German Expressionism 4

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang (1890 -1976) 0 A representative o German expressionism, second half of his life he was mainly active in Hollywood 0 Metropolis (1927) – the US production 0 M (1931) 0 A precursor of the poetics of film noir Film Genres-Prewar Europe-German Expressionism 5

Metropolis 1927 Film Genres-Prewar Europe-German Expressionism 6

The Soviet Montage Theory/School/Intellect ual Montage Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 7

“traditional school” and Soviet Montage Theory: continuity editing versus montage 0 Methods like: Matching eyelines, 180 -degree rule (D. W. Griffith school) – the storytelling 0 Russian Revolution of 1917 0 1919: First Film Institute All-Soviet Institute of Cinematography/ Всесоюзный государственный институт кинематографии 0 Film directors who have taught at the institute include Lev Kuleshov, Marlen Khutsiev, Aleksey Batalov, Sergei Eisenstein, Mikhail Romm Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 8

Montage: “in motion pictures, the editing technique of assembling separate pieces of thematically related film and putting them together into a sequence. With montage, portions of motion pictures can be carefully built up piece by the director, film editor, and visua and sound technicians, who cut and fit each part with the others” (Encyclopedia Britannica) Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 9

Example: Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie-Camera (1929) "The film Man with a Movie Camera represents AN EXPERIMENTATION IN THE CINEMATIC COMMUNICATION Of visual phenomena WITHOUT THE USE OF INTERTITLES (a film without intertitles) WITHOUT THE HELP OF A SCENARIO (a film without a scenario) WITHOUT THE HELP OF THEATRE (a film without actors, without sets, etc. ) This new experimentation work by Kino. Eye is directed towards the creation of an authentically international absolute language of cinema on the basis of its complete separation from the language of theatre and literature. " Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 10

How the film was made? 0 Man with a Movie Camera – the Soviet Montage 0 Truth/Storytelling? 0 Footage/Editing 0 Montage as a Representation? 0 New Language? 0 Brows Held High lecture Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 11

Assignment 0 Watch Man with a Movie Camera 0 Choose 10 minutes excerpt 0 Analyse the montage: what is the main line of story/ the main motif or the mode (dominant theme) 0 How the main theme is achieved? 0 300 -350 words Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 12

Language/Poetics/ Experiments Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 13

Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 14

Soviet Montage Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 15

Next: 0 Soviet Montage – continuation 0 Themerson films 0 The End of Silent Era (back to Dracula 0 Check it OUT: Open Culture essay: http: //www. openculture. com/2014/11/a-visualintroduction-to-soviet-montage-theory-a-revolutionin-filmmaking. html Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 16

Assignment for Xmas Have a look at the following material: 0 https: //artmuseum. pl/en/filmoteka/praca/franciszka -and-stefan-themersonowie-przygoda-czlowieka 0 Gather the information about Franciszka and Stefan Themerson 0 Assess their contribution to the Avant-garde cinema before WWII 0 300 -350 words Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 17

The Soviet Montage Continuation Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 18

Discussion on Lev Kuleshow and the school of montage Sergei Eisenstein Unfilmable Themersons Back to Hollywood: the End of Silent Era Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 19

Unfilmable? 0 Sergei Eisenstein 0 The Battleship Potemkin(1925) 0 https: //www. youtube. c om/watch? v=g 5 Wbeo. P_ B 8 E 0 Usage of Montage to Film the Unfilmable Cinema History: Soviet Montage School 20