He also developed the theory of creative geography, which is the use of the action around a cut to connect otherwise disparate settings into a cohesive narrative. ==Life and career== Lev Kuleshov was born in 1899 into an intellectual Russian family.
In 1911 Vladimir Kuleshov died; three years later Lev and his mother moved to Moscow where his elder brother was studying and working as an engineer.
In 1916 he applied to work at the film company led by Aleksandr Khanzhonkov.
He co-directed his first movie Twilight in 1917.
His next film was released under the Soviet patronage. During 1918–1920 he covered the Russian Civil War with a documentary crew.
In 1919 he headed the first Soviet film courses at the National Film School.
He contributed the article "Kinematografichesky naturshchik" to the first issue of Zrelishcha in 1922.
In 1934 and 1935 Kuleshov went to Tajikistan to direct there Dokhunda, a movie based on the novel by Tajik national poet Sadriddin Ayni, but the project was regarded with suspicion by the authorities as possibly exciting Tajik nationalism, and stopped.
In 1934 and 1935 Kuleshov went to Tajikistan to direct there Dokhunda, a movie based on the novel by Tajik national poet Sadriddin Ayni, but the project was regarded with suspicion by the authorities as possibly exciting Tajik nationalism, and stopped.
No footage survives. After directing his last film in 1943, Kuleshov served as an artistic director and an academic rector at VGIK where he worked for the next 25 years.
He was given the title People's Artist of the RSFSR in 1969.
He was survived by his wife Aleksandra Khokhlova (1897–1985) – an actress, film director and educator, granddaughter of Pavel Tretyakov and Sergey Botkin – and Aleksandra's son Sergei from her first marriage. ==Awards and honours== People's Artist of the RSFSR, 1969. Order of Lenin Order of the Red Banner of Labour ==Filmography== ==References== ==Further reading== Kuleshov, Lev.
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов; – 29 March 1970) was a Russian and Soviet filmmaker and film theorist, one of the founders of the world's first film school, the Moscow Film School.
He was a member of the jury at the 27th Venice International Film Festival, as well as a special guest during other international film festivals. Lev Kuleshov died in Moscow in 1970.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. Kuleshov, L.V.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1974. Kuleshov, L.
Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1987. Drubek, Natascha.
London; New York: Routledge, 1992.
London, UK: Routledge, 1994, 31-50. ==External links== An interview with Lev Kuleshov's grand-daughter, the film scholar Ekaterina Khokhlova.
“Lev Kuleshov’s Retrospective in Bologna, 2008: An Interview with Ekaterina Khokhlova.” Art Margins Online.
(Oct 2008). Yampolsky, Mikhail.
“Annotations for the Hyperkino Edition of Lev Kulershov’s Engineer Prite’s Project (1918), Academia Series, RUSCICO 2010.” Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema.
Genri v tiur’me)” (“The Great Consoler (O’Henry in Prison”) (DVD Review 2011).
Von der Ikone zum frühen sowjetischen Kino, Wien – Köln – Weimar: Böhlau 2012. Izvolov, Nikolai and Natascha Drubek-Meyer.
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