A gallery of 13 uninhibited, wildly perverse drawings made by Sergei Eisenstein while in Mexico during the production of ¡Que Viva México! His free-flowing line moves the viewer’s gaze around the picture. Although the themes and content depicted in the movie are much less caustic, eye movements arc across the film frame as they do with the drawings. One is not looking so much “at” something as we are roving around and through the frame in curvilinear swoops and swirls. The ideas depicted through the pictures, quick sketches of fluid lines, do unleash fantastic unconscious themes and ideas. Bruce Posner I think the savage eroticism/blasphemy of the drawings is something else. It’s not what he could imagine filming, but an uncensored “stream of unconsciousness” that’s working on what he sees and a lurid, uncensored imagination “explained” in terms of the intellectual/ instinctive process he was undergoing in Mexico.

Ian Christie