Experience Eisenstein’s revolutionary silent classic Strike like never before—brought to life at The Press Room with a live, electrifying score from local experimental groove-makers Dog Lips.
STAČKA (STUCK): A Special Film Screening w/ Live Musical Accompaniment by Dog Lips
Sat 3/28
12pm doors/12:30pm show
All Ages | $15 adv./$18 day of
Stačka (Strike)
12PM – The Press Room, Portsmouth
Sergej Eisenstein • 1924-1925 • USSR • 95 min • language: English intertitles
**with special live musical accompaniment by Dog Lips
**Introduction by Amy Boylan and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Eisenstein’s first feature film, Strike centers around a pre-Revolutionary Russian factory that erupts into a full-blown strike after a worker commits suicide. It is considered one of the defining films of Soviet realism and montage. Daria Khitrova and Yuri Tsivian observe that “[w]hatever may seem like a flaw in Eisenstein’s first, anarchic feature is, in fact, an attribute. Mismatches; discontinuities; disorienting camera setups; even the shot of a puddle that has been spliced in upside-down – any inanity we encounter in Stachka is there not by mistake but by design. Eisenstein’s is a ruleless film, and it cost him many a struggle to keep it that way.”
Restored in HD by KinoLorber in 2011, transferred in high-definition from the 35mm restored version by La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
