Country:Russia

Director:Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein and the School of Soviet Montage

Program:Multiplying Parallels

Summary:

Kuleshov demonstrated the necessity of considering montage as the basic tool of cinema art. In Kuleshov's view, the cinema consists of fragments and the assembly of those fragments, the assembly of elements which in reality are distinct. It is therefore not the content of the images in a film which is important, but their combination.