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A series of essays about Sergei Eisenstein´s work and influence were published.
February 03, 2016Provocative in all his art, as a good innovator, Sergei M. Eisenstein was also a great pedagogue. He was one of the great inventors of the pedagogy of cinema, besides being a great theorist. As an artist and as a man, he was very controversial.
“A broad perspective that pay tribute to the great Soviet filmmaker's multiple facets was sought to capture in the compilation of texts of the book, Sergei M. Eisenstein”, the researcher Eduardo de la Vega said, compiler of the work during the presentation of the sixth volume of Grandes Autores (Great Authors) collection, published by the National Film Archive, which took place in the Área de Murales (Murals Area) of the Palace of Fine Arts Museum
With the presence of Nelson Carro Rodríguez, director of Diffusion and Programming of the National Film Archive; writer Arturo Garmendia and journalist and film critic Sergio Raúl López Mejía, the details of the genesis and content of this volume, launched as part of the Russian avant-garde: The Vertigo of the future, which now houses the marble institution, were shared.
Eduardo de la Vega said that the biggest challenge in making "this essential book" was not be reiterative as many other volumes that have been writen about Eisenstein. The way to avoid the ordinary consisted in "the sum of his texts, different in time and context, became a broad view of the einsensteiniana work, in its avant-garde proposal, in the richness of the work and esthetic commitment to the future. "
The book, Sergei M. Eisenstein, an anthology of essays and analysis of several authors, specialists from different latitudes and times, includes texts by contemporary writers and Eduardo de la Vega.
"The book contains a challenge and a commitment to my teachers. Three of its brilliant writings -works by Arturo Garmendia, David Ramón and José de la Colina-are included as part of a personal commitment as they helped me to train into history and film criticism", he said.
De la Vega added that on the teaching side, this book aims to echo the brilliant theoretical and pedagogical Eisenstein's work. He also deepend on the emphasis that the work done in the presence of the Soviet director in our country, 85 years ago, was revived by the recent premiere in our country, Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015) by the British Peter Greenaway.
In this regard, the compiler described the event as "just one of the happiest coincidences that frame the launch of this copy, which of course includes the stay of Eisenstein in Mexico, a privileged moment in many ways, the key and synthesis of the Soviet and Mexican avant-garde. Some of this is in the book. "
The Great Authors collection of notebooks from the National Film Archive include volumes dedicated to Erich von Stroheim, Kenji Mizoguchi, John Ford, Frank Capra and Georg Wilhelm Pabst.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
