This article addresses the singular paradox that film editing, whose pioneers introduced the principle of montage into 20th century art, has continued to ignore through its eminently technological teaching—a kind of computer science applied to the audiovisual—its extraordinary creative potential (collage, photomontage, literary montage, architectural montage). In this presentation, prior to an in-depth PhD thesis on the topic, we briefly present a proposal for montage-collage practices for students of film (and other arts) where the creative clashes of images and sounds are taught in both a narrative sense and in their more artistic, critical, poetic or simply playful dimension. The relationship between montage-collage and the new digital aesthetics of remixing, sampling and mash-up —popular in the stream of content that students consume everyday on their mobile phones— could also provide an excellent intergenerational meeting point.
Keywords:
editing; film making; art education; film industry; cultural industry