Sergueï Eisenstein

The work of the American underground film-maker Kenneth Anger (born 1927) could

be analysed as a reinterpretation of Sergueï Eisenstein’s films (1898-1948)

through the means of cinema itself. Anger uses all the techniques of

Eisensteinian editing in his films, to bring a rhythmic organisation to the

syntax of images. His films reveal the latent themes that lie at the heart of

Eisenstein’s work, to recreate an interpretation freed from the constraints of

denotation, as though the interpretation itself becomes a dream form.

Screening presented by Philippe-Alain Michaud (curator, Centre Pompidou)