TRIBUN-TIMUR.COM - Google pada Senin (22/1/2018) hari ini menampilkan doodle sosok seseorang yang berada di tengah-tengah guntingan film hitam putih.
Masing-masing frame dalam untaian film yang membentuk nama “Google" tersebut memiliki sebuah animasi singkat.
Lahir tepat 120 tahun lalu pada 22 Januari 1898 di Uni Soviet, Eisenstein adalah sutradara film yang aktif pada dekade-dekade awal abad ke -20.
Film-film yang disutradarai oleh Eisenstein antara lain Batleship Potemkin, Strike, dan The General Line.
Di dunia sinema, Eisenstein dikenal sebagai pelopor teknik montase, di mana serangkaian shot berdurasi pendek disusun membentuk sebuah sekuens utuh untuk memadatkan ruang, waktu, dan informasi, sekaligus meneruskan kesan tertentu.
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Salah satu contoh penerapan teknik montase oleh Eisenstein yang terkenal adalah adegan Odessa Step di film bisu Battleship Potemkin, seperti bisa dilihat di bawah.
Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Hari ini, Senin (22/1/2018), Google Doodle menampilkan sosok pria dikelilingi untaian film hitam putih.
Siapa sosok pria itu dan mengapa Google menampilkannya sebagai Google Doodle di hari ini?
Ia adalah Sergei Eisenstein, sutradara film asal Uni Soviet dan dikenal sebagai sang Bapak Montase.
Lahir di Latvia tepat 120 tahun lalu pada 22 Januari 1898, putra dari seorang insinyur sipil ini terkenal berkat karya-karyanya, seperti Battlleship Potemkin , Strike , dan October .
Tak hanya itu, ia juga dikenang karena dua epos sejarah yang berjudul Alexander Nevsky dan Ivan the Terrible .
Selain berkarya di dunia film, Eisenstein nyatanya juga seorang penulis. Beberapa buku tentang teknik film terkenal buatannya adalah Film Form dan The Film Sense .
Di buku-bukunya ini, ia menjelaskan pentingnya montase secara terperrinci dan bagaimana cara membuatnya. Ia juga menjelaskan bagaimana montase adalah inti dari bioskop.
Sekadar informasi, montase merupakan teknik pengeditan film dengan cara merangkai potongan-potongan gambar. Teknik ini sering digunakan untuk menggambarkan berlalunya waktu atau peristiwa.
Today’s animated Google Doodle marks what would have been the 120th birthday of Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), a true giant of world cinema whose role in crafting the visual language of screen storytelling in the industry’s earliest days proved pivotal and whose legacy continues to influence directors in the 21st century.
Born in what is now Riga, Latvia, Sergei studied architecture and engineering at the Petrograd Institute of Civil Engineering before joining the Red Army and taking part in the Bolshevik Revolution. His role in creating successful propaganda for the cause led to his being awarded a command position in Minsk, Belarus, before he arrived in Moscow in 1920 to transfer his artistic skills to the theatre.
Working initially as a director and designer, he became intensely interested in cultural theory and wrote the treatise Montage of Attractions in 1923. This led to his making his first film, Gulmov’s Diary, the same year, an adaptation of one his own experimental theatre productions.
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1/78 Sergei Eisenstein Google Doodle celebrating Sergei Eisenstein Google
2/78 Winter Solstice Google Doodle celebrating Winter Solstice Google
3/78 St Andrew's Day Google Doodle celebrating St Andrew's Day Google
4/78 Gertrude Jekyll Google Doodle celebrating Gertrude Jekyll Google
5/78 Children's Day 2017 Google Doodle celebrating Children's Day 2017 Google
6/78 Cornelia Sorabji Google Doodle celebrating Cornelia Sorabji Google
7/78 Pad Thai Google Doodle celebrating Pad Thai Google
8/78 Jackie Forster Google Doodle celebrating Jackie Forster Google
9/78 Halloween 2017 Google Doodle celebrating Halloween 2017 Google
10/78 Studio for Electronic Music Google Doodle celebrating the Studio for Electronic Music Google
11/78 Selena Quintanilla Google Doodle celebrating Selena Quintanilla Google
12/78 Olaudah Equiano Google Doodle celebrating Olaudah Equiano Google
13/78 Fridtjof Nansen Google Doodle celebrating Fridtjof Nansen Google
14/78 Amalia Hernandez Google Doodle celebrating Amalia Hernandez Google
15/78 Dr Samuel Johnson Google Doodle celebrating Dr Samuel Johnson Google
16/78 Sir John Cornforth Google Doodle celebrating Sir John Cornforth Google
17/78 British Sign Language Google Doodle celebrating British Sign Language Google
18/78 Eduard Khil Google Doodle celebrating Eduard Khil Google
19/78 James Wong Howe Google Doodle celebrating James Wong Howe Google
20/78 Eiko Ishioka Google Doodle celebrating Eiko Ishioka Google
21/78 Eva Ekeblad Google Doodle celebrating Eva Ekeblad Google
22/78 Fourth of July Google Doodle celebrating Fourth of July Google
23/78 Wimbledon Championship Google Doodle celebrating Wimbledon Google
24/78 Victor Hugo Google Doodle celebrating Victor Hugo Google
25/78 Google Doodle celebrating Oskar Fischinger Google Doodle celebrating Oskar Fischinger Google
26/78 UK General Election 2017 Google celebrates the UK General Election Google
27/78 Zaha Hadid Google celebrates the acclaimed architect for becoming the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize on this day in 2004 Google
28/78 Richard Oakes Google Doodle celebrating Richard Oakes' 75 birthday Google
29/78 Google Doodle celebrating the Antikythera Mechanism Google Doodle celebrating the Antikythera Mechanism Google
30/78 Ferdinand Monoyer The famous French ophthalmologist, who invented the eye test, would have celebrated his 181st birthday today Google
31/78 Google Doodle celebrating Giro d'Italia's 100th Anniversary Google Doodle celebrating Giro d'Italia's 100th Anniversary Google
32/78 Google Doodle celebrating Nasa's Cassini probe Google Doodle celebrating Nasa's Cassini probe Google
33/78 Google Doodle celebrating Fazlur Rahman Khan Google Doodle celebrating Fazlur Rahman Khan Google
34/78 Google Doodle celebrating Sergei Diaghilev Google Doodle celebrating Sergei Diaghilev Google
35/78 Google Doodle celebrating St. Patrick's Day Google Doodle celebrating St. Patrick's Day Google
36/78 Google Doodle celebrating Holi Festival Google Doodle celebrating Holi Festival Google
37/78 Google Doodle celebrating St. David's Day Google Doodle celebrating St. David's Day Google
38/78 Abdul Sattar Edhi Google Doodle of Abdul Sattar Edhi on February 28 2017 Google
39/78 Seven earth-sized exoplanets discovered Google Doodle celebrates Nasa's discovery of seven earth-sized exoplanets in new solar system Google
40/78 Bessie Coleman Google Doodle honours the first African American woman to get an international pilot licence on her 125th birthday Google
41/78 Caroling Google Doodle celebrates Christmas caroling Google
42/78 Today's Google Doodle features activist Steve Biko Google
43/78 Walter Cronkite Google celebrates Walter Cronkite's 100th birthday
44/78 Ladislao José Biro Google celebrates Ladislao José Biro 117th birthday
45/78 Google Google celebrates its 18th birthday
46/78 The history of tea in Britain Google celebrates the 385th anniversary of tea in the UK
47/78 Autumnal equinox 2016 Google marks the start of fall
48/78 Paralympics 2016 Google marks the start of the Paralympic Games 2016
49/78 Nettie Stevens Google celebrates Nettie Stevens 155th birthday
50/78 Father's Day 2016 Google celebrates Father's Day
51/78 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Google celebrates Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 180th birthday
52/78 Earth Day 2016 Google celebrates Earth Day
53/78 Ravi Shankar Google marks Pandit Ravi Shankar's 96th birthday
54/78 Olympic Games in 1896 Google are celebrates the 120th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games in 1896
55/78 World Twenty20 final Google celebrates the 2016 World Twenty20 cricket final between the West Indies and England with a doodle Google
56/78 William Morris Google celebrates William Morris' 182 birthday with a doodle showcasing his most famous designs Google
57/78 St Patrick's Day 2016 Googlle celebrates St Patrick's Day on 17 March
58/78 Caroline Herschel Google marks Caroline Herschel's 266th birthday Google
59/78 Clara Rockmore Google celebrates Clara Rockmore's 105th birthday
60/78 International Women's Day 2016 #OneDayIWill video marks International Woman's Day on 8 March
61/78 St David's Day 2016 Google marks St David's Day Google
62/78 Leap Year 2016 Google celebrates Leap Day on 28 February 2 Google
63/78 Lantern Festival 2016 Google celebrates the last day of the Chinese New Year celebrations with a doodle of the Lantern Festival Google
64/78 Stethoscope Inventor, René Laennec Google celebrate's René Laennec's 235th birthday
65/78 Valentine's Day 2016 Google celebrates Valentine's Day with a romantic Doodle
66/78 Dmitri Mendeleev Google celebrate Dmitri Mendeleev's 182nd birthday
67/78 "The televisor" demonstartion Google Doodle celebrates 90 years since the first demonstration of television or "the televisor" to the public
68/78 Professor Scoville Google marks Professor Scoville’s 151st birthday
69/78 Sophie Taeuber-Arp Google marks Sophie Taeuber-Arp's 127th birthday
70/78 Charles Perrault Google celebrates author Charles Perrault's 388th birthday
71/78 Mountain of Butterflies discovery Google celebrates the 41st anniversary of the discovery of the Mountain of Butterflies
72/78 Winter Solstice 2015 Google celebrate the Winter Solstice
73/78 St Andrew's Day 2015 Google marks St Andrew's Day with doodle featuring Scotland's flag and Loch Ness monster
74/78 41st anniversary of the discovery of 'Lucy' Google marks the 41st anniversary of the discovery of 'Lucy', the name given to a collection of fossilised bones that once made up the skeleton of a hominid from the Australopithecus afarensis species, who lived in Ethiopia 3.2 million years ago
75/78 George Boole Google marks George Boole's 200th birthday
76/78 Halloween 2015 Google celebrates Halloween using an interactive doodle game "Global Candy Cup"
77/78 Prague Astronomical Clock Google celebrates the 605th anniversary of the Prague Astronomical Clock, one of the oldest functioning timepieces in the world
78/78 Autumnal Equinox 2015 Google marks the autumnal equinox on 23 September
Eisenstein remains best known for the silent montage films that followed - Strike (1925), the ground-breaking Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), commissioned to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution.
These films, concerning the power of the people to rise up, influenced contemporaries like Alexander Dovzhenko, Vsevolod Pudovkin and Dziga Vertov at a time when the progressive nature of Russian art left the world trailing in its wake. Only D.W. Griffith in the US and the likes of Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau and Robert Wiene at Germany’s UFA studios came close to producing work to match their extraordinary output.
The international acclaim with which Eisenstein’s films were greeted saw him permitted to tour the world in the early 1930s, visiting Europe, Japan, the US and Mexico. The director was particularly smitten with the latter country where he socialised with Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and commenced an ambitious chronicle of Mexican history entitled Que Viva Mexico! that sadly remains one of cinema’s great uncompleted works. Eisenstein’s long sojourn in Mexico saw a worried Joseph Stalin send a telegram asking if he had deserted the Soviet Union.
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin remains one of the most revered films of all time - not least for its famous Odessa steps sequence
However, it is arguably Eisenstein’s historical epics, Alexander Nevsky (1938) and the two-part Ivan The Terrible (1944 and 1958), that have left the most enduring impact on modern filmmaking. Both are vivid accounts of near-mythic men undertaken on a huge canvas, starring the great actor Nikolai Cherkasov and boasting scores composed by Sergei Prokofiev. As a marriage of music and action, the famous "Battle on the Ice" sequence from Alexander Nevsky, in particular, is once seen, never forgotten.
All of Eisenstein’s films were undertaken with political ends in mind, as the Kremlin approved all contemporary projects on the understanding that they would demonstrate to their own people and to the world at large the obvious supremacy of Communist art and the might of the USSR as a political force. Official approval nevertheless rarely prevented Eisenstein from falling foul of controversy.
Despite its being well received and Eisenstein awarded the Order of Lenin and Stalin Prize as a reward for his achievements, Alexander Nevsky had to be pulled from distribution following the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in 1939, just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. Its tale of a heroic Russian knight seeing off Teutonic hordes could all-too-easily have been misconstrued as a mischievous allegory for the contemporary geopolitical situation.
Sergei Eisenstein behind the camera in 1926 (Rex)
It was Ivan The Terrible though that would prove to be Eisenstein’s downfall. Originally intended as a trilogy of films about the reign of Tsar Ivan IV (1530-1584), Part Two was met with disapproval and immediately banned in 1948, interpreted as a veiled critique of Stalin at one remove in its overt attack on tyrannical leadership. It would not see the light of day for another decade. Scenes already filmed from a planned Part Three were confiscated and destroyed and the great man was left in disgrace.
Eisenstein suffered a severe heart attack in 1946 and died of a second in his Moscow apartment on 11 February 1948. He was cremated and his ashes buried amid the snow of the capital’s Novodevichy Cemetery.
