Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with live music score

Name: Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN with live music score
Start: 2025-02-25T20:15:00+00:00
Location: Bank Vault Aberystwyth

Schedule

Tue, 25 Feb, 2025 at 08:15 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Bank Vault Aberystwyth | Aberystwyth, WA

Widely considered as one of the most influential films of all time, BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN takes place during the Russian Revolution of 1905, as deplorable conditions on board the armored cruiser Potemkin drive the ship's crew to mutiny.
This special showing will include spontaneous, improvised live music from Lyndon Owen and Tim Beckham.
Eisenstein wrote the film as revolutionary propaganda, but also used it to test his theories of montage. The revolutionary Soviet filmmakers of the Kuleshov school of filmmaking were experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein attempted to edit the film in such a way as to produce the greatest emotional response, so that the viewer would feel sympathy for the rebellious sailors of the Battleship Potemkin and hatred for their overlords. In the manner of most propaganda, the characterization is simple, so that the audience could clearly see with whom they should sympathize