Lev Kuleshov
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Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов; 13 January [O.S. 1 January] 1899 in Tambov - 29 March 1970 in Moscow) was a Russian filmmaker and film theorist who taught at and helped establish the world's first film school (the Moscow Film School).
Kuleshov may well be the very first film theorist as he was a leader in Soviet montage theory — developing his theories of editing before those of Sergei Eisenstein (briefly a student of Kuleshov) and Vsevolod Pudovkin. For Kuleshov, the essence of the cinema was editing, the juxtaposition of one shot with another. To illustrate this principle, he created what has come to be known as the Kuleshov Experiment. In this now-famous editing exercise, shots of an actor were intercut with various meaningful images (a casket, a bowl of soup, and so on) in order to show how editing changes viewers' interpretations of images.
In addition to his theoretical work, Kuleshov was an active director of feature-length films, until the Stalinist Russian government began to disapprove of the lack of revolutionary fervor in his work.
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[edit] Filmography
1918 - The Project of Engineer Prite
1920 - On the Red Front
1924 - The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
1925 - The Death Ray
1926 - By the Law
1927 - Your Acquaintance
1929 - The Merry Canary[1]
1929 - Two-Bul'di-Two
1931 - Forty Hearts
1932 - The Horizon
1933 - The Great Consoler
1934 - Theft of Sight
1940 - The Siberians
1941 - Incident on a Volcano
1942 - Youthful Partisans: Kartashova, The Teacher
1944 - We from the Urals
[edit] Honours
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[edit] Further reading
- Kuleshov, Lev. Kuleshov on Film, translated and edited, with an introduction by Ronald Levaco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974.
