Our Experimental and the Kabuki

Much of the idea for the experimental film was taken from the a small extract in the Sergei Eisenstein section of  J. Dudley Andrew's 'The Major Film Theories' book. Specifically the section on how Eisenstein took influence from the Russian Kabuki theatre, "The meaning of a kabuki play could never be understood be a recounting of the plot or gestures. It is the form of the ensemble which contains the meaning and this form, in Eisenstein's view, is as abstract and as powerful as a musical or painterly form." This translated into the idea for the experimental film by EXPERIMENTING with the ways in which each individual film form (i.e. lighting, sound, colour etc) contributed to the meaning of a scene or a film as a whole.