Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage, Montage is a film editing technique in which a series of short shots are sequenced to condense space, time, and information, Eisenstein remains best known for the silent montage films that followed - Strike (1925), Strike which is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union, It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film. The ground-breaking Battleship Potemkin (1925) The Battleship Potemkin was considered "powerfully seditious" by critics, Eisenstein’s film The Battleship Potemkin was burned by French customs upon arrival, and banned by movie theaters in Pennsylvania because it "gives American sailors a blueprint as to how to conduct a mutiny.” And October (1928) is a Soviet silent historical film, It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Eisenstein also experimented with a theory called Intellectual Montage which was considered a style of editing that could form a relation or meaning between two separate images created from juxtaposition, and have them form new ideas, metaphors or symbols to the shots.
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