In between the Arts: Peter Greenaway and Sergei Eisenstein

Molinari, Carla ORCID: 0000-0002-1892-6325 (2018) In between the Arts: Peter Greenaway and Sergei Eisenstein. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 35 (4). pp. 333-348. doi:10.1080/10509208.2018.1434753

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Abstract

Eisenstein in Guanajuato by Peter Greenaway was released in 2015. The film is about the period that the Russian director - Sergei Eisenstein - spent in Mexico, and how these days changed Eisenstein's life, in Greenaway's vision. But most importantly, the film is a powerful, visual reinterpretation of the key concept developed by Eisenstein throughout his life: The Montage. Peter Greenaway is a talented British director, who also created paintings and several art installations, beside films. He declared more than once his admiration for Sergei Eisenstein, and with this film - the first of an entire trilogy about Eisenstein - he finally visually stated his reference to him. But how much, and in which ways has Eisenstein influenced Greenaway's works? Is there a relation between Eisenstein's theories and ideas and Greenaway's cinematographic vision? This paper will try to answer these questions; it aims to understand and clarify the relationship between the two directors, defining the similar, peculiar aspects of their poetics and finally, focuses on the potentialities of Cinema as a total art, within and beyond Cinema itself.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR N Fine Arts > NA Architecture N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation Creative Practice and Theory
Depositing User:	Carla Molinari
Date Deposited:	09 Apr 2018 08:55
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 09:22
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5463

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