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Battleship Potemkin
The mutiny that rewrote how film is cut.
What
A poster for Sergei Eisenstein’s Bronenosets Potyomkin — the film whose Odessa Steps sequence became the textbook of montage.
Why
Eisenstein proved that meaning lives in the cut, not the shot; the Constructivist posters for the film advertise that theory in ink.
Notice
Diagonal force, the ship’s guns, the crowd as pattern — the sheet moves the way the film’s editing moves.
“The cut is the weapon.”
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Size
$29.00
Provenance
- Film
- Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925), dir. Sergei Eisenstein
- Country / studio
- USSR · Goskino
- Printer / stone
- lithograph
- Format
- One-sheet (27 × 41 in.)
- Poster published
- Soviet theatrical poster, 1925
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (poster published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year, never the film’s. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-16.
In the room
Where it would hang
The reproduction, framed and lit, in rooms built for looking. A rendering — your walls, your frame.
From The Constructivists
The Double Bill
Two one-sheets, hung as a pair — a double feature for your wall, at a pairing price of $270.00 for the two. Build one from any two one-sheets in the gallery.
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