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Video Essay: How the Soviet Avant-garde invented TikTok
The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
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From Sergei Eisenstein’s explosive montage theory to Dziga Vertov’s radical “Cine-Eye”, the Soviet avant-garde didn’t just revolutionise cinema – it laid the foundations for how we experience media today. TikTok may feel like the future, but in many ways, it’s echoing the past.
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