Poetic Expressionism of Sergei Eisenstein

1. Read Lecture Notes (in uploaded files).

2. Watch this clip about the Soviet (Eisenstein) montage theory.
– Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5WbeoP_B8E

3. Read Sergey Eisenstein, “A Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram”, ” Methods of Montage” (in uploaded files). DO NOT read the entire PDF just require chapters.
– read ONLY the chapter on “A Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram”, starting on page 28. Then the chapter on ” Methods of Montage” starting on page 72.

4. Watch Geoffrey Reggio Naqoyqatsi (2002). Watch part 1 and part 2 (on Dailymotion linked below).
– Movie Link:
Part 1: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtmtai
Part 2: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtnedl

Assignment Questions:
Choose a sequence from Naqoyqatsi that best exemplifies the intellectual montage according to Eisenstein.

– What is the dialectic relationship between the shots within a sequence?
– Identify all the methods/levels of montage present in the sequence (metric, rhythmic, tonal, over tonal) and their cumulative effect on the audience.
– How does the sequence (through the means of intellectual montage) create a new meaning/idea?

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