Film editing to show emotion

Mary Stewart tells about a film-based experiment by early Soviet filmmaker Lev Kulesov, in which they perceived a man's unchanging face as portraying different emotions by mixing it with shots of a bowl of soup, scenes from nature, a baby,, and a dead woman (311). This reminded me of color perception due to contrast. The exact same color is perceived differently depending on what color it is paired with. Like this, in the experiment the man's face, which was the same from shot to shot, with perceived to be show hunger, longing, joy and grief, all based on the image it was paired with.