Artistic Expression

Continue to reveal the essence of a reality, by capitalizing on it through image.

The increasingly major concern of director Serghei Eisenstein for the personal reckoning with certain impressions that at one point forced him for that inner struggle that he so many times confessed keeps coming back. It is reflected in a specific of composition in the very interior of things. The center of gravity of their effects does not reside so much in the explosion, as in the process of charging that explosion, because "the very process of victory represents, in fact, a process of liberation."

So it was in the film "Potemkin", the scene of the massacre on the stairs, followed by the lions that roar and by the explosion of anger in the film "The Old and The New". The feverish wait for the drop of milk from the centrifuge, or in the film "Nevsky" the pig attack. So it is now in the film "Ivan the Terrible" that verb "You life ! " which makes the entire emotional baggage accumulated over the scene in which the tsar realizes on the plane of consciousness and affects the constraint of submitting to death explode.

This sequence from "Ivan the Terrible" contains a clear autobiographical note through its idea: the defeat of death, as well as, in a more intimate texture, through the method by which it is constructed.

And behold, the circle closes, and we reach the point we started off from, the autobiographical character of the film is clear from even the sketched capture of the creative process. Of course, the monographer should examine all this in detail. The biographer was pleased with recording a fragment of the biography of creation. *

Do you confess your inner struggle in an impulse of creation, reflected in the specific of the composition from the interior of the whole you connect to?

To complete the process of forming notions, corresponding to a sense of active participation and implication in the interior of the whole you connect to, often means to reduce to identity, expression, value, image – what can be expressed through an idea, through the variation of a single parameter, by means of sensations or perceptions.

The great voyages on the realm of directing are born through the discovery of the properties and reasons of things through analogy with a supposed real model of singularity, later expressed through a "verb" that helps the shaping of a character, but also the construction of an intrigue.

A verb like "You Lie ! " denotes a state of insecurity, a truth revealed, a faithful representation of an unjust consciousness, a manifestation of thought entering into dialogue with a different thinking. It is a present given that reflects a reality perceived sensibly or rationally through words, gestures, colors, sounds. All these tend to reflect the essence of a reality capitalized upon through image.

The figurative expression of human nature in the presence of another thinking, via image effects, is one of the fundamentals of artistic expression.

Creation, not always being reducible to the predetermined schemes of perceiving certain objects, states, facts, realities or images, is build, however, on the idea that the force that orders the infinite movement of an action, of a phenomenon or process, carries within itself the conditions of the possibility of appearance of a difference between the anticipations and results of a certain experience.

This experience, which makes the entire emotional baggage of the director explode, orders variety in harmony, corresponds to a simultaneous playback of a huge impression and psychology of a certain subject or character, exaggerating or alternating the meanings of acts or combining and articulating them in such a way that the desired effects are created.

Capturing your own psychological traits in the portraits of the characters you create is a corollary of cinematic success.

Inner struggle is an experience of learning from which new roles derive, new characters, new types of subjects, new forms of artistic expression. Only those who confess their inner struggle in an impulse of creation, reflected in the specific of the composition from within the whole to which they connect, will be able to affirm and consolidate their genius and reunite the two fields – leadership with cinematography – in an analogy of conceptions about being, existence, nature, spirit, individual, reality, art, science and progress.

Artistic Expression emerges from the at least sketched capture of the creative process that highlights the nature of the individual under the guise of a certain identity, along with a powerful subject, reflected by the balanced use of the cinematic artistic means: colors, sounds, lines, lights, projections of images, foreground, background, and so on and so forth.

* Note: Ion Barna - Eisenstein, Youth Publishing House, 1966.