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In the 1920s, while Hollywood was perfecting the “continuity system”—a seamless, invisible style of editing designed to tell clear, character-driven stories—a revolution of a different kind was exploding in the young Soviet Union. This revolution was not just political; it was cinematic. From the rubble of the Tsarist empire and the fervor of the Bolshevik Revolution emerged a group of filmmakers and theorists who saw in cinema the ultimate tool for building a new socialist consciousness. For them, the essence of cinema was not in the shot, but in the space between the shots. They believed that meaning was not…