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Strike (12A)

+ Live piano accompaniment by Wendy Hiscocks

,Barbican Cinema 1
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Wendy Hiscocks performs alongside a screening of Sergei Eisenstein's epic.

Sergei Eisenstein's landmark first film tells the story of a workers’ revolt in a factory in Czarist Russia. Featuring historic experiments in the art of montage, Eisenstein used editing to juxtapose complementary images to create rapid and dynamic shifts in rhythm.

Exploring themes of collectivism versus individualism, with an explicit  revolutionary agenda and laden with visual metaphors; indeed, the emotive sequence towards the end in which the violent suppression of the strike is cross-cut with footage of cattle being slaughtered, has been compulsory viewing for film students ever since. An exemplary film of Russian revolutionary cinema.

 

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USSR 1925 Dir Sergei Eisenstein 82 min

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Location
Barbican Cinema 1 is located within the main Barbican building on Level -2. Head to Level G and walk towards the Lakeside Terrace where you’ll find stairs and lifts to take you down to the venue floor.   

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Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS

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