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Pioneer of montage theory who revolutionized editing through dynamic collision of images to create meaning beyond individual shots.
Jean-Luc Godard FranceSystematically deconstructed conventional narrative editing with jump cuts, disjunctive sound-image relationships, and reflexive formal interventions.
Dziga Vertov Soviet UnionDeveloped radical kinetic editing techniques that treated the camera and editing as primary creative tools to construct reality rather than document it.