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Kuleshov on Film: Writings by Lev Kuleshov Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov, Ronald Levaco
Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Throughout his life he created 18 films and helped establish the worlds first film school in Moscow. For instance, Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov developed early theories on the effect of editing and the juxtaposition of images in sequence. The Kuleshov effect is a film editing effect demonstrated by the Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910's and 1920's. The idea that editing constitutes the “essence” of film art originated with the Russian director and theoretician Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970) who experimented with montage in the 1920s in an almost scientific fashion and is also one of the key exponents of the 'film as language' idea. These studies began a continuous line of European philosophical works on film that stretched through to today's writings by Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Žižek. He was born in 1899 and died aged 71 in 1970. As a lifelong film geek and a current programmer for the Seattle International Film Festival, I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly (generally, as well as the Sergio Leone classic). Some are too long, others are thankfully brief, but they all employ classical film narrative techniques to some degree. The younger director and theorist Lev Kuleshov, who believed in the central importance of editing to the filmmaking process, ran an influential workshop there that helped to birth montage theory. The inventor of the Kuleshov effect. Kuleshov's students included In the next few years, Kuleshov's former students would produce three now-classic revolutionary entertainment films: Eisenstein's Strike (1924) and Battleship Potemkin (1925), and Pudovkin's own Mother (1926). He screened a short film of still images for an audience.