I saw this short on "Alive From Off Center" way back in the day. Using then-cutting edge compositing and chroma key effects, Rybczynski shows a tour guide with his group (in colour) wandering through the famous (black and white) "Odessa Steps" sequence from Eisenstein's Battleship Potyemkin. The sarcastic climax comes at the famousest bit, when the mother is shot and her baby carriage rolls down the steps: the tourists ooze from every corner of Eisenstein's enraged frames, pointing and cooing at the blood, taking photographs of the calamity with their flashbulb cameras.
A brilliant, intriguing ten minutes, on the warping and woofing of memory through technology, on the capitalist exploitation of revolutionary rhetoric, on the transformation of the iconic into kitsch, and even on the played-out-ness of the "Odessa Steps" sequence (Brian de Palma and Terry Gilliam had only just stolen it, for example, for "The Untouchables" and "Brazil").
A brilliant, intriguing ten minutes, on the warping and woofing of memory through technology, on the capitalist exploitation of revolutionary rhetoric, on the transformation of the iconic into kitsch, and even on the played-out-ness of the "Odessa Steps" sequence (Brian de Palma and Terry Gilliam had only just stolen it, for example, for "The Untouchables" and "Brazil").