Sergei Eisenstein was a Soviet filmmaker and theorist whose films — 'Battleship Potemkin', 'October', 'Ivan the Terrible' — and theoretical writings on montage established the intellectual foundation of film editing as an art form.
Eisenstein's theory of dialectical montage — the collision of two shots produces a third meaning neither contains alone — is the formal ancestor of Nolan's multi-timeline cross-cutting, which generates emotional and conceptual meaning from architectural juxtaposition.
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