Smartfon – tryumf Eisensteina
Smartphone – The Triumph of Eisenstein

Summary/Abstract: Smartphones have become so popular that almost every event gets recorded. Even such an unexpected occurrence as the explosion in Beirut, which turned nearly half of the city into rubble, was caught on several smartphones. Most of these videos have one characteristic in common – they are vertical. This fact has been ridiculed by filmmakers and satirists many times. Despite this, the popularity of vertical films does not seem to diminish. They even find more and more defenders, also within academic circles. In this article the author sums up these voices and reminds that the landscape orientation of the moving image was not always the rule before Edison nor in the realm of video art and expanded cinema, and that one of the precursors of the vertical screen was Sergei Eisenstein.

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