A premiere of the show “Montage of attractions” took place on February 12 and 13 at the Centre Pompidou-Metz as a part of the exhibition “Ecstatic Eye. Sergei Eisenstein, film director at the crossroads of art”. The performance at the modern art museum was presented within Russian seasons in France.
“Montage of attractions. Serguei Eisenstein” is a fourth year show of GITIS’ Faculty of Variety Theatre students (class of Vladimir Pankov). Our students performed together with actors from the Theatre in Vire, Normany (Théâtre de Vire). French and Russian actors had been working together since last year, both in Moscow and in Normandy. As a material they took the play by Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky “Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man” — the play that Serguei Eisenstein himself had chosen for his first theatre production. In 1923 he presented it as “attractions edit”, referring as “attraction” to anything that can affect viewer’s emotions.
Working in his authentic genre of “sound drama”, director Vladimir Pankov, creates the show in “Eisenstein style”, combining different techniques and tricks of theatre art.
The exhibition “The Ecstatic Eye. Sergueï Eisenstein, filmmaker at the crossroads of the arts” ends on February 24th.
Curators of the exhibition: Ada Ackerman, Philippe-Alain Michaud.
