ALIEN • AI • ROBOTICS SCIFI • TECHNOLOGY

Alien: Covenant's homage to Eisenstein's revolutionary editing techniques used in the filming of Battleship Potemkin, the silent film's scene resulted in an un-precedentedly horrifying and stunning spectacle, charged with political meaning. These same methods were used to film the scene of the pathogen drop, alternating between David's view of the city and the view of the ship from below where the Engineers gathered.