Da, Comrade! Hip-Hop, Soviet Montage, & Do the Right Thing
Posted on January 17, 2008
Various forms of revolution- Dziga Vertov, Cinema God and premier montagist made brilliant films like Man With A Movie Camera, using jump-cuts and clever editing to make his mark: Buggin’ Out, played by Giancarlo Esposito, inspired by Public Enemy. (Source- Vertov, Buggin’ Out)
‘Statement on Sound’ is a landmark 1928 joint statement by the early Soviet masters Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Alexandrov. It is largely an attempt at predicting the impact of sound in cinema, just a single year after the seminal premiere of The Jazz Singer in 1927.
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