The document discusses the origins and techniques of haiku poetry from Japan and how film director Eisenstein adapted concepts from haiku to develop the movie montage technique. Specifically, it explains how haiku uses juxtaposition of images and ideas separated by a cutting word to create psychological effects in the reader, and how Eisenstein transferred this approach to cinema by splicing together unrelated shots and scenes to elicit emotions in viewers.
2. ? Originated in Japan
? The most iconic and oldest form of poetry
? Most have the essence of cutting, or the use of
opposing images or ideas and splitting them
with a cutting word
? The cutting word abstractly shows how the
ideas are related.
3. ? LOCANISM
? The transition from one point to another
? Haikus are in what is referred to as laconic form.
4. ? Eisenstein used this technique to achieve the
same thing through montage
? Used the same idea in montage to create a
feeling
5. ? Eisenstein states that haikus are montage
phrases or shot list.
? The combination of multiple seemingly
unrelated words or images yields
psychological effects
? When the ideograms are combined with the
intellectual thought process they become
emotional and make sense
6. ? Night, and the moon!My neighbor, playing on
his flute -out of tune!
7. ? The crow has flown away:swaying in the
evening sun,a leafless tree.