Eisenstein's Piranesi
Session
Integrated Design
Description
This paper will deal with a very interesting encounter between architecture and cinema through analysing two texts written by Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein. In the late years of his career, Eisenstein wrote an article on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s architectural etchings Le Carceri d'Invenzione, finding cinematic dynamism in those images. The current text will analyse the formal method of Eisenstein’s architectural reading and will ask the question why he looked at the 18th-century architectural etchings of Piranesi in order to find contemporary cinematic forms.
Keywords:
Eisenstein, film, soviet, architecture, cinema, Piranesi
Session Chair
Ajhan Bajmaku, Artrit Bytyçi
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-19-2
Location
Pristina, Kosovo
Start Date
26-10-2019 11:00 AM
End Date
26-10-2019 12:30 PM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.08
Recommended Citation
Bajmaku, Ajhan and Rada, Tefik, "Eisenstein's Piranesi" (2019). UBT International Conference. 8.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2019/events/8
Eisenstein's Piranesi
Pristina, Kosovo
This paper will deal with a very interesting encounter between architecture and cinema through analysing two texts written by Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein. In the late years of his career, Eisenstein wrote an article on Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s architectural etchings Le Carceri d'Invenzione, finding cinematic dynamism in those images. The current text will analyse the formal method of Eisenstein’s architectural reading and will ask the question why he looked at the 18th-century architectural etchings of Piranesi in order to find contemporary cinematic forms.