Year: 1984
Runtime: 55 mins
Language: English
Across six film‑image essays the series re‑imagines cinema’s origins and poetics, using historic movies as textual evidence. It studies early cinema from the Lumière brothers and Méliès through surrealism, horror, montage and propaganda, ending with Sergei Eisenstein’s Stalin‑era works, showing how each epoch shaped film language and culture.
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