This is when an American film known as Intolerance by D.W Griffith was screened across the Soviet Union, it became one of the most influential films in Russia and became subject of intense study in the film school. Kuleshov began to study D.W Griffith’s editing style, reordering the images in order to discover the impact different edits had. He found out that the meaning of a scene was radically changed depending on the order of the shots. For Kuleshov the essence of the cinema was editing, the juxtaposition of one shot paired with another. To illustrate this principle he came up with what we know today as the ‘Kuleshov experiment’. This led Kuleshov to experiment with making his own short film (The Expressionless), he took an image of a man