Sightlines · a concept

montage organic

the two poles of Soviet montage: the *organic* (the spiral/growth, the set of any-instant-whatevers) and the *pathetic* (the qualitative leap/shock, the genesis of the new); the pathetic presupposes the organic.

On screen: organic = accumulating growth/spiral; pathetic = the shock-collision producing a new quality.

12 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary


Deleuze’s own examples

DBattleship Potemkin1925DIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages1916

Across the collection

The Grapes of Wrath1940The Party1968Rocky1976The Blues Brothers1980Reds1981Gandhi1982Eat Drink Man Woman1994Iron Man2008Up2009Whiplash2014