Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, October 14

We re-watched part of "A Dead Man Calls for Justice" (Act 4 of Battleship Potemkin) as a contrasting example to the "Meeting With the Squadron" from yesterday's class. The cutting of "Dead Man" is as languid and peaceful as the "Meeting" is fast and furious.

Afterwards, Mr. Potratz distributed a further handout reviewing montage in the Odessa Steps sequence, and we re-watched that without music and discussed it.

Finally, Mr. Potratz compared Eisenstein's technique with cubist painting and projected Marcel Duchamp's famous "Nude Descending a Staircase."