Kuleshov in 2020

Kuleshov in 2020 is a short experimental documentary that shines a flickering light on personal perception and inequality.

In the early 1900’s, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov made a short film showing an expressionless man intercut with three other shots: a bowl of soup, a child in a coffin and a woman laid out on a sofa. When an audience was shown the film, they believed the expression on the man’s face was different each time, looking hungry, grief-stricken and lustful. It was the exact same shot of the man every time. I created a film that uses the same simple trick to expose our own perceptions about race, class and gender in these tumultuous times.