Sergei Eisenstein
His conception of the basic
material of the medium grew from the belief that the single shot was the film's
basic building block. This then developed or led to a much more complex
conception, that of the "attraction." This latter concept is much
less mechanistic than the shot, for it takes into account the activity of the
viewers' mind, not simply the action of the filmmaker's will. The tension between
the simple, predictable, mechanistic process of filmmaking and the complex
developmental experience of film viewing emerged explicitly in Eisenstein's
double view, first of film form and then of the purpose of film. Eisenstein
studied mechanical engineering in the years before he entered the artistic
colony of Moscow, and when he joined that colony he entered a period known as
"Constructivism."
From the
beginning Eisenstein considered the artistic activity to be one of
"making" or, more precisely, of "building." For this reason
the question of the "raw material" which the artist has at his
disposal was constantly paramount in his mind.
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