Metanoia

Janell Yeo, Goldsmiths, University of London

Highly influential to Sergei Eisenstein’s brand of Soviet montage theory was his love for Japanese theatre, visual art, poetry, and Sino-Japanese ideograms.1

Inspired by the haiga — image and text combining to form a distinct aesthetic experience — this set of haiku proceeds in company with the audiovisual triptych.2

Beyond the Garden

Shame and guilt ripe for harvest - 

A dove flies away

Plague and pestilence

image and likeness eclipsed -

Season of weeping

East winds rattling

Silken cocoons of penance - 

Yearning for sweet Spring

Bibliography

Eisenstein, Sergei. “The Unexpected.” In Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, translated and edited by Jay Leyda, 18-27. New York: Harcourt, 1949.

Eisenstein, Sergei. “The Cinematographic Principle and the Ideogram.” In Film Form: Essays in Film Theory, translated and edited by Jay Leyda, 28-44. New York: Harcourt, 1949.

Kacian, Jim. “Looking and Seeing: How Haiga Works.” Paper presented at the Haiku Society of America National Meeting, Xavier University, New Orleans, September 15, 2002. https://www.gendaihaiku.com/kacian/haiga.html.