The Power of Projections (Potemkin) Printed matter, 16 pages, 130 x 195mm, 2014. The Power of Projections (Potemkin) is a printed matter based upon the famous silent film The Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein (1925). It is a free interpretation of the transcribed script. The film The Battleship Potemkin is a dramatized version of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers of the Tsarist regime. The director Sergei Eisenstein wrote the film as a revolutionary propaganda film, but also used it to test his theories of "montage", an editing technique with the aim of producing the greatest emotional response among the audience. The film was considered to be very successful in this sense and consequently to have a very high potential to influence political thought. The film was banned in many countries until the beginning of the 1950’s. The printed matter The Power of Projections (Potemkin) leaves some of the original film scenes out, others are rewritten and shortened and a few are replaced with descriptions of painted backdrops that illustrate the original scenes. The use of painted illusionary backdrops is a comment to the phenomena "Potemkin village" that derives from the story of Prince Grigory Potemkin painting fake settlements on huge backdrops placed along the river banks in order to impress his mistress Empress Catherine the Great when visiting Crimea in 1787. The printed matter was originally presented within the exhibition Shown in Pieces, Sinne, Helsinki, FIN, 2014. Piled on an illusion painted marble panel placed on the floor it was installed in relation to Silent Film a black-painted free standing wall measuring 4 x 3 meters, in the format of 4:3, which is also the standard aspect ratio for silent film. The Power of Projections (Potemkin) has also been read and performed live. Find link to a pdf here.