Visual Essays: Origins of Film
These six essays on film/image history reconstruct cinema history by 're-imagining' its origins, and its poetries, and use historical films themselves (as 'text') to provide the meanings of their creations. Together, these film essays comprise a critical/structural investigation of silent cinema ending with Segei Eisenstein's works (for Stalin) - from Lumiere and Melies through surrealism and horros, to montage and propaganda, we 're-invent' epochs in cinema that became its language and culture.
- Year: 1984
- Country: Canada
- Genre: Drama
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- Keyword: essay film
- Director: Al Razutis
- Cast: Susan Berganzi, Trevor Brazil, Maria Insell, Amarjeet Ratan, Al Razutis