Mozg Mechanik

Courtesy of Savonarola, here's a link to some clips of Vsevelod Pudovkin's Mechanics of the Brain. While Pudovkin is best known for the slapstick grid of Chess Fever and the quintessential Soviet heroic montage of Mother, this is a documentary discussing the techniques of Pavlov, and the experiments being carried out in his Psychological Laboratory: an especially intense instance of the Constructivist obsession with precision and control, the Taylorist scientific management that fixated them all being employed at the level of the Brain itself. As such it looks like somewhat unnerving stuff, especially where it coexists with a depiction of jolly everyday byt.