Private Project

MONTAGE - Experiment/Enthusiasm

This film is a diptych.
To the left, « Enthusiasm (the Symphony of the Donbass) », made by Dziga Vertov in 1930.
To the right and ten years later, « Experiments in the Revival of Organisms » by David Yashin and Dr. S. S. Bryukhunenko.
A poster published in Moscow in 1921 declared the Donbass, « the heart of Russia ».
In the final part of the film, the scenes shot in factories, mines, railways and fields are separated and reassembled with the portraits of the witnesses to the transformation of the Donbass during the first Soviet Five-Year Plan.

  • Ron Kenley
    Director
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    MONTAGE - Expérience/Enthousiasme
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Other
  • Runtime:
    32 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Russian Federation, Ukraine
  • Language:
    English, Russian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.39
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Ron Kenley

Trained as an architect with a long career in teaching, he has been creating multi-media and videos since 1998. Started with visual works as film analysis (2001-2003). Over the years, he developed the capacity for handling all the aspects of filmmaking more or less single-handed. This resulted in a diverse and independent work of various lengths and subjects.
Recent filmography:
2022 - Whisper of wrath (9 min)
2022 - Stories of Assassins (13 min)
2021 – Un-painting (17 min), K’s GAZE (diptych 18+28 min)
2020 – The Time Being Trilogy (12+34+18 min), They think we are ghosts (21 min)

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Director Statement

A film brings together images taken before and elsewhere.
Here, the images come from other films made before and elsewhere.
It is an exploration of the possibility of montage not only as a sequential combination of shots, but also simultaniously on different parts of the screen. The sound follows the same logic between left and right. To separate and underline, coloured light rays are used.
(The research on this film started in 2023 after the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and was completed in 2025)