Reviewing the classical

Montage consists in rediscovering unity from a basis of fragmentation, but without concealing the fragmentation in doing so, on the contrary emphasizing it by emphasizing the autonomy of the shot.It is a double movement emphasizing the autonomy of the shot and simultaneously seeking within that shot a strength that will enable it to enter into a relationship with another or several other shots and in this way eventually form a unity.This unity is no longer that of classical continuity.It is a unity of contrasts, a dialectical unity.

J.Rivette