#the kuleshov effect

[s-lycopersicum]

#watashi no oshi wa akuyaku reijou #rae taylor #claire francois #wataoshi #gif #the kuleshov effect

[diana-andraste]

The Kuleshov effect featuring the expressionless face of Ivan Mosjoukine.

The way these shots are placed makes/implies different emotions.

#film #kuleshov effect #filmmaking #1920s #lev kuleshov #black and white #art #ivan mosjoukine #alfred hitchcock #photomontage #vintage #movies

[noosphe-re]

The Kuleshov effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Russian film-maker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation.

Wikipedia

#quote #Lev Kuleshov #Kuleshov #cinema #cinematography #Kuleshov effect #filmmaking #film #art #film theory

[david-talks-sw]

So there's this study that was done in the early 1920s (that was shown to me during two separate "film editing 101" courses) called the "Kuleshov effect."

The experiment was simple, and rather than trying to explain what it was, I'll just link a modern remake below, it's only a minute.

The actor has an expressionless face.

But depending on what we're shown once we cut away - be it a kid in a coffin, a woman on a sofa or a gourmet meal - we, as viewers, will project our own emotional reactions to the sequence of images, and the actor's impassive face.

In the absence of context, we create it ourselves by hanging on to what little information we have to then form a narrative.

In the Prequels, we either aren't shown or aren't shown in an emotionally-satisfying way:

How the Jedi teach all younglings to love without becoming attached.

How the Jedi's culture works.

What their status is, in the grand scheme of the Republic (not very high, and they're powerless to change it).

The Jedi's day-to-day, mediating between planetary leaders, helping them find compromise.

The Jedi's various interactions with Anakin.

The Jedi having fun, laughing, eating lunch, being shown in a normal, humanized light.

We know that most of this stuff is happening because GL says so, but the Prequels aren't supposed to be their films... so he only shows just enough of the Jedi Order to serve his stories of how Anakin and the Republic's gave in to their greed and fear and became Vader and the Empire.

AKA, the absent context, the blank expression on the actor's face.

So an audience that wanted to know more about the above-listed items but instead got a whole lot of "politics" talk will either reject the movies entirely out of disappointment, or attempt to engage with the material, in which case they'll go:

"The Jedi forbid love, that's what their whole culture is all about, repressing emotions, they can do more but can't, they always mistreated Anakin and were trying to purge themselves of all humanity in service of logic and the greater good."

AKA, the projection, like with the Kuleshov test.

That's not what the films say, nor is it the narrative intent.

But in the absence of context explicitly disproving any of this in an emotionally-satisfying way, the audience won't help but project their own impression of the Jedi ("holier than thou, hypocritical assholes" - an opinion formed because the Jedi were not developed or humanized enough on-screen) onto the narrative.

And there's only so much legwork Lucas' commentary, comics, books and TCW can do.

#jedi #kuleshov effect #george lucas #Youtube

[thecupsmith]

#thecupsmith #thecupsmith original #thecupsmith meme #meme #su #steven universe #batman #teenage mutant ninja turtles #bruce wayne #batman's parents #tmnt #tmnt raphael #garnet #garnet su #i think we're gonna have to kill this guy #This is where I watched my parents died #kuleshov effect #wikipedia

[jughead-is-canonically-aroace]

omg thank u for introducing me to the term kuleshov effect, that is my favorite aspect of fan edits it makes me go insane

it's so fucking cool, i was actually gonna make a video essay for a final project (before i realized that i don't know how to use a video editor + other problems befouled me) comparing two movies illustrating the connections and the contrasts i was making using the kuleshov effect, which would have pretty much just straightup been an amv using songs from one of the movies.

it's part of why a good gifset is one of my favorite kinds of fandom meta - clips from x episode paired with clips from y later episode, etc - like !!!!! you're making a connection and holding it up for me to look at directly so i can then make that connection myself purely through the juxtaposition!!!!!!!! that's so cool!!!!!!!!

like, look at this

you see what i'm saying??? the meaning comes from the interraction of the paired gifs/lines

or this one

which does like, angle or lighting comparison in addition to the contrast in emotion - shot comparison! match shots! et cetera!

like, the meaning here isn't coming from the caption, i don't see that until later, it's coming from seeing these visuals & dialogue juxtaposed and interpreting something from the decision to pair them. that's video essay

but like to get back to videos and amvs and the kuleshov effect and soviet montage in general - look at this supernatural amv. i've never seen supernatural but this is one of my favorite songs by the mountain goats, and there are lines in it that were put in a completely new perspective for me by watching this amv and seeing what shots the editor put under which lines

soviet montage is a style that developed pretty much in direct response to western/hollywood continuity editing, and specifically in response to the film birth of a nation, which was interesting to the soviet filmmakers in the way that they saw the style of filmmaking aided the film in selling the story of the KKK to the american audience

continuity editing stylistically wants to be noticed as little as possible, and guide you along the viewing of the movie, blurring the lines between your reality and the reality of the film (the idea of the suspension of disbelief) through things that mimic the real life experience of moving throug the world - shot-to-shot things like showing the exterior of the building and then the interior, keeping the camera within the same 180 degrees in a single scene so the people you're filming aren't suddenly on different sides of the camera (the viewer); and scene-to-scene things like having events occur chronologically (and if not, having a clear indication of flashback or flash forward as per filmmaking convention)

the soviet filmmakers saw this as like, some capitalist propaganda bullshit because it encouraged you to take in these ideas without necessarily thinking or critically examining them, and so it was very easy to make the KKK the heroes by just building a triumphant narrative around them, and how that narrative is shown to the viewer depends on how it's edited

and so montage editing, which is rising out of the same school of filmmaking as the kuleshov effect, is in direct response to that, to try and find a style of editing that makes the viewer pay attention to the techniques and to the fact that they're watching a film, keeps their brain engaged, and has them draw their own conclusions from what they're shown rather than being gently handed the conclusions by the film. so it's a style that is built on inviting thought and critique, and therefore a pretty natural style for expressing audiovisual critique and analysis

(amvs also have their roots in this style bc soviet filmmakers were often working with recutting american films rather than filming their own due to lack of funds for purchasing film. which is pretty cool)

if you wanna check out a cool classic example of soviet montage editing, vertov's man with a movie camera (1hr) is really fun, kind of a "day in the life" but also a display of different effects you can get by using a film camera in different ways, bit of stop motion, etc

(vertov is also a really interesting, he coined the idea of kino-eye, which is about the way that the camera looks at the world and how that's different from how a human eye looks at the world, and also, the way the world reacts or changes in response to being looked at by the camera. which is Pretty Relevant Right Now I'd Say! glares at tiktok. glares at surveilence state. anyway you might wanna check that out too it's a bit tangental to the topic but still relevant in terms of the idea of film as unique medium which can be used to express ideas differently than the written word)

#asks #film #soviet montage editing #kuleshov effect #vertov #amvs #amv #half of this is what i remember from a lecture in my film class so don't like quote me but also do know that i have a pretty good memory

[disease]

SARIN // JIGAR [KULESHOV EFFECT EP, 2018]

#audio #sarin #EBM #new beat #industrial #electro #kuleshov effect #X-IMG #techno #electronic #music

[jerichoes]

also. my final squad is gale astarion lae'zel. and let me tell you. with the way this playthrough has played out, including the romances. gale is not over her. he's not over her he's not over her he's not over her somebody kill me

#all of this depends ENTIRELY on the context of this one playthrough and the order in which things happened #but getting the 'i think it's time to reconsider the orb' scene over getting ANYTHING with astarion #has created a kuleshov effect so goddamn powerful it blew my head clean off i think #ough #ouuuuughhhhh

[rudolphsb9]

Also I love the implication that Katia saw her father (and he saw her even if he didn't know it was her, specifically, on the helicopter) and that's what prompted her to steer a helicopter through a forty-story window

#hitman: agent 47 #katia van dees #dr. litvenko #that's the power of montage #srsly it's a whole thing called the kuleshov effect #check it out

[crabcrabcrabmeat]

That scene where bel and amuro first make out and are like "lol maybe we should forget abt getting kamille and char back into space hehe, why focus on the mission when we can focus on us~" HARD CUT to char strutting in, fists clenched asking her to leave....iconic

#the way the scene is set is insane too #amuro follows bel out of the elevator #she challenges him emotionally #then they flirt and make out #then once char breaks it up amuro follows him back into the elevator going the opposite direction than last time #they have an emotionally loaded conversation. end scene 👀🫡👁️ #abs blabs #am i reading too much into it or is it a masterpiece of male yuri? (kuleshov effect n narrative ellipsis) #why not both

[coreytasticc]

nothing, and I do mean nothing, is funnier than your ex becoming a sort of tumblr-cryptid that sneaks onto posts to say something suspect and have his URL incredulously reacted to.

#kuleshov effect

[foone]

Starting a film studio that exclusively makes porn but we never show two people together in screen at once. We have to imply everything using the kuleshov effect

[ongaku01]

#music #audio #arctor #electronic #acid #braindance #breaks #electro #techno #bandcamp #glasgow #kuleshov effect #remix

[patricia-taxxon]

the kuleshov effect

#cilantromixture #patricia taxxon ask

[doctorbunny]

A little speculation about Corpse Disposal and J-horror

But I'm a little bored so sharing a part-theory, part-headcanon on Muu and Rei

So we unfortunately don't see much of Rei in "Its not my fault" but I want to point out three key times we do

The first time we see Rei in the MV, is her wet sleeve (we know its not Muu because Muu wears a pink jumper under her blazer)

Then, after a lot of bug stuff, we're finally back in the real world, where Muu has just killed her Post-After Pain. In INMF, we don't see the surroundings as well, just the dirt track and bushes. But in AP, we see this is right next to a rushing river (Muu's undercover card also features a bridge as a landmark)

The next time we see Rei after her corpse, is a flashback to the start where she turns the hourglass over. Then it cuts just further back to before Rei stood up - as she pulls herself up off the floor She's alive and absolutely soaked after a session of intense bullying (which we saw Muu insert herself into in AP)

However, I want to now switch a little to talk about cinematography and a concept called the Kuleshov effect The video I linked is pretty concise but the gist is that if you put two shots next to each other, even if they were filmed separately, the brain interprets it as a continuous scene (so if you film a character looking off screen, then a picture of an apple on a table, we're going to assume they're looking at the apple)

Therefore while we understand chronologically that the sequence of events is Rei (wet and alive) -> Rei's murder on dry land ↺ Flashback to Rei still wet and alive Which I think everyone understood as a commentary on how this power struggle was a constant cycle of the hourglass being turned over

I think visually, it also implies a sequence like Rei was bullied -> Muu kills her -> Sopping wet, Rei crawls back to the classroom

But wait! That sequence suggests a missing step How did Rei get wet again?

Well, we know Muu killed her next to a river And if you were a scrawny teenage murderer with a body on your hands, would you leave it there where someone could see it while you grab a shovel and stand in broad daylight digging a hole in tough ground??? Or try lighting a fire in public??? Of course not!

It'd be much easier for Muu to, in a panic, just roll her body into the convenient river and let all the evidence wash away!

(Of course, if Muu was panicking, she might not have been very careful. Given she ended up in MILGRAM, there must've been something tying Muu to Rei's death and in T2 Muu seems to have finally remembered losing her left shoe...)

Fun fact: this is the same shoe Cinderella loses in the animated Disney film (and the best known version of that story came into English from France)

Shoe break over, back to the Endless Queen's Game

So, if we assume Rei's corpse was thrown in the river, what does it matter? Its just a pointless headcanon

But I speculate the meaning goes deeper!

So that image of Rei, soaking wet, crawling off the floor reminded me of something: J-horror ghost girls! Specifically the most famous of ghost girls Samara/Sadako Who became a vengeful spirit after being thrown in a well and now crawls out of TVs to kill people who watched her VHS tape

Her story too is a cyclical one (its called 'Ring' for a reason), the only way to break the curse is to copy the tape and have someone else watch it, who will then become the victim unless they can themselves copy the tape and show it to another unsuspecting patsy

The story goes back further because this movie is based on a novel, which is based on the legend of 番町皿屋敷 Banchou Sara Yashiki. There are many versions but generally a maid girl Okiku is proposed to, and when she rejects the proposal, her master breaks one of ten plates and promises to forgive her if she marries him. When she declines again, he beats her to near death then throws her into a well (sometimes it's a jealous mistress instead of a master)

Interestingly, Atrophaneura alcinous (swallowtail butterfly) larvae found in Japanese wells became known as Okikumushi お菊虫 (Okiku bugs), tying back to the whole insect thing...

It's been said a bunch now, but the name 'Rei' can be read as 霊 meaning ghost (seen in words like Yuurei 幽霊, a more common word for ghost than Rei on its own)

We know Muu is afraid of ghosts too (though I must admit she says Obake, not yuurei, but both words refer to ghosts)

Remembers the i/井 in Sakurai/櫻井 can be read as 'well' I'm sure that has nothing to do with anything

Uh, I can't think of a conclusion because its 1 am and I had to look up a bunch of spooky images

TL;DR: I think Muu may have quickly shoved Rei's body into the river next to where the murder happened (maybe forgot her shoe at the scene of the crime) and now she's scared by the cycle continuing and Rei coming back to haunt her

#muu kusunoki #rei milgram #haruka sakurai #milgram #ミルグラム #milgram theory #I can't fit it in the post but isnt it funny how Rei and Muu's lives revolve around cycles #then Rei dies of blood loss after a sharp pain in her abdomen

[annaxmalina]

{2023} Horizon effect

"from pogrom to pogrom — i'm not in the mood for music" Horizon {1932, Lev Kuleshov}

#gif #animation #glitch art #anna malina #faulty inkjet prints #colour #found footage #appropriated footage #2023 #horizon #gorizont #lev kuleshov #1932 #soviet cinema #Youtube