the 36th new york film festival:
at the walter reade theater
eisenstein's strike
October 1, 1998
Sponsored by
STRIKE
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the films of the 36th new york film festival: at the walter reade theater eisenstein's strike October 1, 1998 Sponsored by
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sergei Eisenstein's birth The 36th New York Film Film Festival presents STRIKE USSR,1924; 92 minutes, silent, new 35mm print new score composed and performed by The Alloy Orchestra Thursday, October 1: 7 and 9:30 pm at the Walter Reade Theater. Admission: $12 In Sergei Eisenstein's first feature film, the suicide of a fired factory worker sets off an initially peaceful strike, which Russian Cossacks eventually "settle" by slaughtering the workers. Set in 1912, STRIKE stars members of the radical Proletkult Theater and shows Eisenstein putting into play for the first time his pioneering theory of "dialectical montage." A brilliant cinematic essay on breaking all the rules of moviemaking, STRIKE is a powerful example of Russian Constructivism, an avant-garde movement driven by revolution, the language of the masses, modernity, and utopian visions. Technology gives Constructivism its forms; structure, geometry and movement characterize its style. Eisenstein's editorial/poetic shock tactics are viscerally in evidence, as when he cuts ever more swiftly from a descending butcher's knife to shots of the Cossack massacre to the throat of a bull being slit. STRIKE is filmmaking being invented before your very eyes! The silent film program at the Walter Reade Theater is made possible through the generosity of the Ira M. Resnick Foundation.
Main Film Festival Program
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