Sergei Eisenstein:
The Mexican Drawings
Sergei Eisenstein: ¡Que viva México!
Expert from the unfinished Que viva México!, the film Eisenstein came to shoot in Mexico, and which he would tragically be excluded from editing. The film's hybrid images depict Mexican life as a simultaneity of past and present. Reminiscent of, and yet surpassing the modern 'primitivist' fascination with the 'archaic', Mexico presented for Eisenstein a tableau of dialectic imagery that allowed him to re-conceptualize the role of modern art and revolutionary cinema in traversing the modern dichotomies of subject and object, rational and irrational, inside and outside, individual and collective, and even death and life.
Eisenstein's ¡Que viva México!
Lecture by Oksana Bulgakowa
Eisenstein & Disney
Lecture by Oksana Bulgakowa
