What are two-frame films?

Two-frame filming intends to capture the formalised aspect of photography. the anthology process and juxtaposition of photogenic images and how both may diffuse/affect the ways in which someone engages with the work presented.

This montage of images involves the photographer to also engage as one must incorporate their emotion and meaning in order to reason with the juxtaposing images. Two-frame films can be processed through a standard 35mm frame, boxing the meaningful  tale of two photogenic sets; often close in moderate proximity (within the space of a few seconds), while at other times, two-frame films can involve distant intervals, I believe this alternative can enable the viewer to engage more to identify and assume visible connections in a satisfying way.

“The strength of montage lies in the fact that it involves the spectator’s emotions and reason. The spectator is forced to follow the same creative path that the authors followed when creating the image.”
S. Eisenstein, The Film Sense

“Art is always conflict…It is art’s task to make manifest the contradictions of Being. To form equitable views by stirring up contradictions within the spectator’s mind, and to forge accurate intellectual concepts from the dynamic clash of opposing passions.”
S. Eisenstein, A Dialectic Approach to Film Form

Above are two quotes written by Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. These quotes helped to reap an efficient understand of how two-film photography works, with support from these quotes I formed a perspective of structure between the paired images.

The theory of Montage

First articulated by Russian film makers in the 1920s, specifically Sergei Eisenstein, who proposed that montage was:

“An idea that DERIVES from the collision between two shots that are independent of one another.”

From research, my understanding and thoughts on The Theory of Montage, I can gather that Eisenstein intends to use segments of film that compresses a certain topic or message exposed in a passage of time. This brief symbolic message can join a set of images together; giving the definition of structure, “to construct, or to arrange”.