Kuleshov effect

Facial expressions and the importance of context. Kuleshov edited together a short film in which a shot of the expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mozzhukhin was alternated with various other shots (a plate of soup, a girl, a little girl's coffin). The film was shown to an audience who believed that the expression on Mozzhukhin's face was different each time he appeared, depending on whether he was "looking at" the plate of soup, the girl, or the coffin, showing an expression of hunger, desire or grief respectively. Actually the footage of Mozzhukhin was the same shot repeated over and over again.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• emotions
• kuleshov
• film
• Pudovkin
• context
• expressions
• psychology

[STGBree]

The mouth is the exact same, it's our interpretation of the facial expressions after each image that's different

[ZaraHell666]

his mouth is the difference