1. Soviet Montage,
Lecture 17

2. Dialectics of Form: Eisenstein: “The shot and montage are the basic elements of cinema” “The shot appears as the cell of montage.” (organic metaphor) “So, montage is conflict.” THEN: There must be conflict in the shot as well.

3. Conflict within the shot
1) Shot (enframed image)—
Graphic conflict
Conflict of planes
Conflict of volume
Light conflict
Spatial conflict
Conflict between matter and viewpoint (ex: canted and other camera angles)
Conflict between matter and its spatial nature (ex: optical distortion)
Conflict between an event and its temporal nature (ex: slow motion, fast motion, stop-motion)
Conflict between optical complex and different sphere (ex: conflict between image and sound)

4. Graphic conflict within the shot

5. Conflict of volume, light, planes, space

6. Graphic Conflict/Light Conflict

7. Conflict of volumes

8. Spatial conflict (conflict of depth)

9. Conflict Between Matter and Viewpoint (ex: camera angles)

10. From Man with a Movie Camera
Conflict between matter and its spatial nature (ex: optical distortion)
From Man with a Movie Camera

11. Conflict between an event and its temporal nature (ex: slow motion, fast motion, stop-motion)

12. Conflict between shots (in editing)
2) Montage (editing)—conflict between shots
Graphic conflict
Conflict of planes
Conflict of volume
Light conflict
Spatial conflict
Tempo conflict
Association montage
Intellectual montage
Physiological effects produced by optical means
Emotional effects produced by psychological means
New Ideas and attitudes

13. Conflict between shots (in editing)

14. Tempo Conflict

15. Tempo Conflict

16. Eisenstein: “Association Montage”
Produces emotional effects by psychological means

17. Ex: “Association Montage” non-diegetic insert
From Strike (1925)

18. Eisenstein: “Intellectual Montage”
Produces new ideas and attitudes

19. Eisenstein: “Intellectual Montage”
Each shot is like an ideogram Ideogram—a written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it

20. Ex 1: “Intellectual Montage” non-diegetic insert Overlapping editing
From October (1927)
Kerensky, stairs, and the mechanical peacock