Alive from Off Center
Steps
S3 • E3 Jul 26, 1987 25m
Exploring the frontier of 1980s state-of-the-art technology, Steps (1987) by award-winning music video director Zbigniew Rybczynski takes off in an unexpected direction from the famous Odessa steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein’s classic Soviet masterpiece Battleship Potemkin. Using a process he developed to combine found film images with new video, Rybczynski causes all sorts of unexpected things to happen as a group of Americans tourists show up at the Odessa steps just as the Cossacks are about to fire on the striking workers.