Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisensteinwas a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike, Battleship Potemkinand October, as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevskyand Ivan the Terrible...
NationalityLatvian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth23 January 1898
CountryLatvia
ideas two cinema
Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
flower book illustration
Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In my hands books burst like ripe fruit. Like magic flowers they unfold their petals to show me the vital thought, the suggestive word, the confirming quotation, the decisive illustration.
color cinema elements
For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.