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
bird lightning landscape
Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.
painting language film
Language is much closer to film than painting is.
art tasks contradiction
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being
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.
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?
men directors film
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
reflection cinema film
American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.