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A selection of films that have provided inspiration for TRAUMA for your viewing pleasure...
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Man with a Movie Camera:
Dziga Vertov's experimental masterpiece.
Battleship Potemkin:
The famous Odessa steps sequence from Eisenstein's legendary film. View the full movie here.
Heroic Purgatory:
More superb visual references in part I of the Yoshishige Yoshida film
Olympia:
The diving sequence from Leni Riefenstahl's film of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. View the whole film here.
The Kuleshov Effect:
Lev Kuleshov's editing experiment that demonstrated the incredible power of the simple juxtaposition of two shots in editing.
Triumph of Will:
A short delection of shots from Leni Riefenstahl's terrifying masterpiece. View the full film here.
Ivan The Terrible (Part 1)
Another incredibly powerfully composed film by Sergei Eisenstein (Part 2 here)
Metropolis:
Fritz Lang's legendary expressionist science-fiction film. View the full film here
Modern Times:
Charlie Chaplin's beautiful critique of industrialisation in the opening scenes of Modern Times. View the whole film here.
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