Soviet Montage

Dziga Vertov

Dziga vertov [born 2 January 1896, died February 1954] was a soviet pioneer documaentary film, newsreel director and cinema theorist. His filmmaking practicies and theories paved the way to Cinema style of documentary moviemaking.

vertov's brothers Boris Kaufman and Mikhail Kaufman wee also notable filmmakers, as was his wife, Elizaveta Svilova. After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya [Moscow Cinema Communities film series, and the first newereel series in Russia]. He bagan as an editor and an assisstant co-director for films such as Man with a Movie camera [1929], and Three songs About Lenin.

Kuleshov

The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing [montage] effect demonstated by russian filmmaker lev Kuleshov in the 1910's and 1920s.

Kuleshov edited together a short film in which he shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Moozzhukin was alternated with various other shots that included, a plate of soup,a girl and a litle girl's coffin.

Sergi Eisenstein

Sergi Mikhailovich Eisenstein [born 23rd january, 1898 and died 11th Feruary, 1948], he was a revolutionary film director and film theorist. He was noted in particular for his silent films that included, Strike, Battleship Potemkin , and October. As well as historicaal epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible. His work was influenced early filmmakers owing to his use of and writings about montage.