Gender Effect
In the early 20th century, Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov conducted an experiment to demonstrate how audiences derive more emotional interpretation from two juxtaposed images than from a single image. The audience’s interpretation does not exist in either image; rather, it is psychologically constructed through interaction with film editing.
Presented in the same 4:3 ratio as the original work, these 10 film stills have been juxtaposed to reappropriate the Kuleshov Effect, exploring how the social construct of gender is falsely assumed based on juxtaposition of body and object.
Whereas before each pairing of images conveyed a new emotional meaning, here, the images are instead curated to extract a saturated ideology of masculinity from within the subject. 3-second intervals of each frame replicate the original film from 1919.
Video Loop (30 seconds)
Benjamin Andrews, 2025
