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Intellectual montage is an alternative to continuity editing proposed by Sergei Eisenstein where a new idea emerges from a sequence of shots and where the new idea is not originally found in any of the individual shots.

This style of editing offers discontinuity in graphic qualities, violations of the 180 degree rule, and the creation of impossible spatial matches. It is not concerned with the depiction of a comprehensible spatial or temporal continuity as is found in the Classical Hollywood continuity system. It draws attention to temporal ellipses because changes between shots are obvious, less fluid, and non-seamless.

Intellectual montage might employ jump cuts, often using jump cuts and non-diegetic inserts or frequentative editing.

Eisenstein argued that "Montage is conflict” where new ideas emerge from the collision of images and where the new emerging ideas are not innate in any of the images of the edited sequence. Le scadenze, Direttiva atmosfere esplosive (8 pag. A new concept explodes into being.

Eisenstein argued that the new meaning that emerged out of conflict is the same phenomenon found in the course of historical events of social and revolutionary change. He used intellectual montage in his experimental films (such as "October”) to portray the political situation surrounding the Bolshevik Revolution.

He also believed that intellectual montage expresses how every-day thought processes happen. In this sense, the montage will in fact form thoughts in the minds of the viewer, and is therefore a powerful tool for propaganda.

Eisenstein relates this to non-literary "writing” in pre-literate societies, such as the ancient use of pictures and images in sequence, that are therefore in ‘conflict. Professional custom framing availableItalia Search.