HNC Photography, IFC - Coursework, Introduction to Film Culture Blog, Part three - Fact or fiction? Truth or lies?, Project 3 - Ways of seeing
As with the previous post Filmmaker IQ have produced a relevant and insightful film, explaining the background to “The Soviet Theory of Montage” which is essential to under stand the subtles of the film making of Sergei Eisenstien in “Battleship Potemkin” and Vladimir Pudovkin in “Mother”
The Soviet Union was very quick to embrace cinema as a tool for propaganda and this style of editing – an development of Griffiths style in “Intolerance” was instrumental in their success.