Montage Fever

Montage Fever is an exercise in cinematic condensation. It concerns the centrality of the process of montage, or editing, in the cinema, a topic of utmost importance to many Soviet filmmakers of the revolutionary era, including Lev Kuleshov (1899-1970), Esfir Shub (1894-1959), Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), and Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948).

Made a century after the October Revolution, Montage Fever consists of scenes and sequences from a variety of Soviet films. It approaches montage in the tradition of revolutionary cinematic praxis; that is, the act of editing is at once the subject and the method of the exercise.