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Battleship Potemkin - Bronenosets Potyomkin 1925

The film is composed of five episodes, if we had more time, this could be a good idea in making tiny episodes, especially if we were wanting to film dream sequences, it would separate the dreams well.

Eisenstein wrote the film as a revolutionary propaganda film but also used it to test his therioes of montage. Also used to experiment with the effect of film editing on audiences.

'Meshes of The Afternoon'

I was particularly taken with this film, although the length made it hard to watch! I think it's just brilliant how eerie it is, dis-jointed and how it confuses and amuses you. This is important and something I want to communicate to the audience.

The piece itself, made in 1943, is a short experimental film directed by wife and husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The films narrative is circular and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, one of which is as key falling. In our film we want to do some sort of thing where you show a 'literal' image of something instead of filming it. For example, for a cyclops just showing one eye, this carries the confused surrealist theme through.

Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.