Eisenstein argued that there were to kinds of approach to montage: Linkage, the idea of continuity of action / narration; and Conflict, the juxtaposition of shots with the aim of generating a different or new idea. "Physical Edition" offers the opportunity to seek alternative interpretations of film to those suggested by the images themselves. Montage is ultimately a device that allows us to compress time and space in order to tell a story.
If we break the space and experience of cinema we find ourselves in a new relationship with montage. 'Montage' becomes a way we experience the film. Montage becomes physical / material and controlled by the viewer who no longer experiences the film in a passive way but has to interact with the materiality of both film and space. "Physical Edition" is therefore an open-ended pursuit, one which should engage and promote conflict as an ongoing agenda rather than as a linear stream of images whose sequentiality cannot be guaranteed.
Spatial Cinematic Experiences developed from the essay "Montage is Conflict_Sergei Eisenstein_1929 and the film Alphaville_Jean Luc Godard_1965"