In an Eisenstein film, loose, metaphorical associations displace narrative continuity: images related only by analogy cut up chronological sequences. Physical action is by turns slowed down to a grueling pace and sped up to a frenzy. In every respect, Sergei Eisenstein's films are challenging. And ye
Ai Wei Wei, a famous Chinese artist and dissident, one of the signers of the Charter 08, made the following post on his blog on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the army's attack on the protesters of Tiananmen Square.
Ai Wei Wei has been working with a group of volunteers to compile and pub