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In the News (Sat 28 Nov 09)

  
  CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
VGIK, or the Russian State Institute of Cinematography, was founded in 1919 at the instigation of Vladimir Lenin, who saw film as the art form with the greatest potential to spread Bolshevik ideology.
The structure of lessons at VGIK is very different from that of Western film schools, where students tend to rotate frequently between different classes and professors.
For Hessman, who was 20 years old when she first came to VGIK in 1992, the fact that the school viewed all these fields as prerequisites for filmmaking was daunting in itself.
context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/11/25/101.html   (1622 words)

  
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VGIK is a former All-Union State Institute of Cinematography, and in 1986 was named after Russian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor, Sergei Gerasimov.
VGIK is the world's oldest educational institution in Cinematography.
The VGIK festival was organized with support from the Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography (Roskultura), the Moscow government, the State Cinema Fund and the Union of Cinematographers.
english.mn.ru /english/printver.php?2006-39-13   (361 words)

  
 VGIK - ויקיפדיה
VGIK הינו המוסד הראשון ללימודי אומנות הקולנוע (סינמטוגרפיה) בעולם, שנוסד על ידי ולדימיר גארדין במוסקבה בשנת 1919.
VGIK היא ממיסדיי CILECT אגודה בינלאומית ללימוד קולנוע וטלוויזה של אונסקו.
IMDB - סרטים שבהם שימשה VGIK כחברת ההפקה.
he.wikipedia.org /wiki/VGIK   (69 words)

  
 Film Festivals . com - People
VGIK is one of the founders and а full member of the CILECT, the UNESCO international association of film and TV schools.
VGIK employs noted personalities from film industry, theatre and television who work actively in practical spheres supervise artist` classes (5 to 15 students each), give lectures, help the students in making their films at the Student Film Studio.
VGIK is the only film school in Russia that has its own STUDENT FILMSTUDIO with а complete production cycle.
www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=26318   (424 words)

  
 [ Nostalghia.com | The Topics :: Tarkovsky VGIK Short Films ]
VGIK's shorts were produced by the VGIK's learning studio, a somewhat separate entity, which is also the rights holder.
There was a fire in the color archive in the 90's and a large amount of color negatives were destroyed.
Fortunately Killers and Concentrate were shot in fl/white and may thus have survived in the VGIK's fl/white archive.
www.acs.ucalgary.ca /~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/On_Shorts.html   (726 words)

  
 Russian culture navigator
VGIK prides itself on its former graduates and now world-famous directors such as Nikita Mikhalkov, Andron Konchalovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vlaidmir Menshov, Alexander Sokurov and Eldar Ryazanov and other celebrities.
VGIK now bears the name of Sergey Gerasimov, an outstanding director and a patriarch of domestic cinema, whose films enter the "golden fund" of world movie masterpieces.
Two exhibitions were launched: one by VGIK's scenography department, the other put up by the school's camera department presented photo glimpses of famous films in the process of shooting.
www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch311_eng.html   (1411 words)

  
 Who is who from A to Z
As a student he shot "The grandmother's Flat", which didn't exectly agree with acute theme films of "perestroyka" and gave rise to a lot of argument in the press, for example a question of "documentarian's right of provoking his characters" was discussed.
Oleg Kovalov was born in Leningrad in 1950.
Arkadi Kogan was born in 1957 in Novosibirsk.
www.vertov.ru /eng/whoiswho.htm   (2568 words)

  
 Liens
Le VGIK prépare les spécialistes de cinéma, de la vidéo, de la télévision et des autres arts de l’écran.
Les laboratoires du VGIK destinés aux recherches sur l’histoire du cinéma russe et étranger (кабинет советского кино, кабинет зарубежного кино) contiennent des documents uniques sur l’histoire et la théorie des arts audiovisuels.
Absolvante du VGIK en 1966, enseigne depuis 1972, vice-recteur depuis 1989.
www.kinoglaz.fr /liensae.htm   (1645 words)

  
 FilmFestivals.com - Cannes 2000
Born in 1949 in Moscow, of Russian and French descent, Lungin graduated from the Department of Structural Linguistics at Moscow University, then studied screen-writing at the Moscow Film school (VGIK).
By way of comparison, Sergei Bodrov was born in 1948 in Siberia, and studied at the Moscow Institute for Energetics and VGIK.
He penned over 30 screenplays until, in 1984, he was working on the feature Sweet Dreams In The Grass and noticed cases of unused film laying around.
www.filmfestivals.com /cannes_2000/official/noce.htm   (791 words)

  
 Йя-Хха - Rachid Nougmanov: In the Eye of the Storm
My first VGIK film, Ya-Ha (1986), was an improvised 40-minute fiction-documentary about underground rock-bands shot in the cellars of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg.
And Talgat Temenov (born 1954), whose Wolf-Cub among Men (1989) was produced by Mosfilm although shot in a Kazakh village, graduated from Solovyov’s master class at VGIK in 1984.
On one level, it was influenced by the working methods taught by Anatoly Vasiliev at VGIK and practiced daily in our workshops.
www.yahha.com /article.php?sid=48   (3017 words)

  
 Conference: "The Art of Animation as a cultural phenomenon" - SAS - Society for Animation Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
This year's conference will not only deal with the general topic "Animation as a cultural phenomenon", but will also focus on the history of Studio Soyuzmultfilm, which celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding.
The VGIK will provide international guests with an official invitation necessary to obtain a visa (for one week) to Russia.
Accomodation will be possible in the VGIK's hall of residence.
gertie.animationstudies.org /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=41   (127 words)

  
 Biography for Andrei Tarkovsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
One of Tarkovsky's teachers at VGIK was Mikhail Romm.
Friend of Sergei Parajanov who was best friends with Mikhail Vartanov, all were graduates of the legendary Russian film school VGIK and met many times; the latter's Russian Academy Award winning Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) features a poetic chapter on the the friendship of Parajanov and Tarkovsky.
Although it was his most widely seen film outside of the Soviet Union, he reportedly regarded Solyaris (1972) as his least favorite of the films he directed.
us.imdb.com /Bio?Tarkovsky,+Andrei   (591 words)

  
 44th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
In 1969 he graduated from the Screenwriting Department of Moscows VGIK.
In the eighties he went back to the VGIK and studied film direction under Georgyi Danelia.
In 1972 he began working as a screenwriter and wrote the screenplay for the film Shock and Sher.
www.filmfestival.gr /2003/uk/st-narimbetov.html   (135 words)

  
 FIPRESCI - News - Valentina Kolodyazhnaya
The Filmmakers' Union of Russia, where some days before Pavel Lebeshev's and Ilya Vaisfeld's civil funerals had been held, didn't agree to give its hall for Valentina Kolodyazhnaya's last good-bye – but this is maybe the only reason why many people couldn't come to the civil funeral in the morgue of a distant Moscow hospital.
Valentina Kolodyazhnaya was one of the brightest teachers of foreign film history at VGIK from 1949 to 1987, and to understand what that means, it is necessary to understand that for VGIK students (i.e.
Nevertheless, she understood that teaching the know-how of analysis automatically presupposes a certain opposition to any ruling, state-patronized absurdities.
www.fipresci.org /news/archive/archive_2003/news_kolodyazhnaya.htm   (495 words)

  
 Don't blink now, it's Kazakhstan
At the end of the 1980s, cinema was the first cultural activity in Kazakhstan to feel the currents of freedom that Mikhail Gorbachev’s policy of perestroika had unleashed.
A dozen young filmmakers who had trained at Moscow’s prestigious VGIK film school returned home in 1987, including Serik Aprimov, Darezhan Omirbayev, Amir Karakulov, Talgat Temenov, all of whom would soon be winning prizes in major film festivals.
The story of the country’s film industry began with Rashid Nugmanov’s 1988 film The Needle, which was a big hit all over the then Soviet Union and one of the first films to break the taboo of talking about drug addiction.
www.unesco.org /courier/2000_10/uk/doss25.htm   (349 words)

  
 Director
Film director, scriptwriter, and Producer, Keren Shakhnazarov received the People’s Artist Award of the Russian Federation (2002), the State Award of the Russian Federation, Lenin Komsomol Award (1986), Vasilev Brothers State Award of RSFSR (1988), and member of the European Film Academy.
In 1975 he graduated from the Film Directing Department of the Moscow State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK, studio of I. Talankin).
In 1975 he graduated from VGIK (Moscow School for Cinematography) where he studied film directing under Igor Talankin.
www.kino.com /theridernameddeath/rider_director2.html   (583 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Profile | Tareq El-Telmissani: From Russia with love   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
In VGIK each professor selected a group of students and organised a four-year workshop.
She accompanied him to Metro movie theatre to watch children's films and when he was nine brought him to studio Nasbian in Al- Dhaher -- "now it has become a pickle store" -- where his uncle was shooting his last film, Al-Nas Eli Taht (People at the Bottom), with Youssef Wahbi and Mary Munib.
During his third year at VGIK El-Telmissani married a Russian.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/637/profile.htm   (2219 words)

  
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VGIK is the first filmschool in the world.
Training is performed by outstanding masters of Drama, Cinema and TV with using the methods, based on great traditions of Russian drama and cinema.
VGIK has a professional Film Studio with 4 big pavilions and with all necessary facilities for shooting.
www.norway.mid.ru /edu/ru_univer.html   (3730 words)

  
 ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN - ARTAVAZD PELESHIAN - ARTAVAZD PELESHYAN
Even Peleshian's student work "THE EARTH OF THE PEOPLE" 1966 and "THE BEGNINING" (1967) shot at VGIK, the prestige film school in Moscow, were awarded numerous prizes and he gained recognition among filmmakers, such as Jean-Luc Godard.
Artavazd Ashoti (Ashotovich) Peleshyan was born on the 22nd of February, 1938 in Leninakan, Armenia, Soviet Union (USSR).
Pelechian studied at the legendary Russian film school VGIK from 1963 to 1968 and now lives in both Armenian capital Yerevan and Russian capital Moscow.
www.parajanov.com /seasons.html   (423 words)

  
 Tampere filmfestival 2004
The Russian master director Andei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) studied at Moscow VGIK in the years 1956-1960.
The Killers is a very rare short film directed by Tarkovsky in 1956, his first year of film school, when he attended Mikhail Romm’s (1901-1971) class.
The story of two hit men was filmed on a set built in the VGIK studios, including the American diner.
www.tamperefilmfestival.fi /2004/eng/elok_t16.htm   (644 words)

  
 Jeonju International Film Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Darejan OMIRBAYEV was born in 1958 in Kazakhstan.
His first short film, Summer Heat (1988), was influenced by films of the French Nouveau Vogue of the late 1950s.
After graduating from the VGIK with a thesis on cinema semiotics (Pasolini, Metz, Mitry), OMIRBAYEV worked as a critic before directing his debut feature film, Kairat (1991), the story of a young man from a village who falls victim to loneliness and despair in the capital city.
eng.jiff.or.kr /program/darezhan.html   (897 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Grigori Chukhrai : Biography
After the war he studied at the Soviet State Film School (VGIK) where he was mentored by such renowned filmmakers as Mikhail Romm and Sergei Yutkevich.
Upon his graduation from VGIK in 1953, Chukhrai worked as an assistant director and then as a second unit director at the Kiev Film Studio.
Instead he concentrated on teaching film direction at VGIK and working as the creative director of the experimental film unit at the Mosfilm Studio.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/74945/bio.jhtml   (374 words)

  
 [ nostalghia.com | The Graphics | Tarkovsky VGIK Film School Shorts ]
Synopsis: see our dedicated page on the VGIK Shorts
– Script written during a 2-hr VGIK exam.
– Synopsis: see our dedicated page on the VGIK Shorts.
www.ucalgary.ca /~tstronds/nostalghia.com/ThePosters/VGIK/Shorts.html   (55 words)

  
 Sergei Bodrov - Biography - Moviefone
Before studying screenwriting at Russia's premiere film school, VGIK, in 1971, Bodrov studied at the Institute of Energetics for two years.
Following his 1974 graduation from VGIK, Bodrov spent three years as a special correspondent for Krokodil magazine.
When not contributing articles, he wrote screenplays, with little success until the early '80s.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/sergei-bodrov/82260/biography   (191 words)

  
 Gueorgui Pinkhassov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Began his interest in photography during his teen years.
Enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1969.
Following college and two years in the army, he joined the film crew at Mosfilm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gueorgui_Pinkhassov   (259 words)

  
 80th anniversary of Sergei Parajanov
A director can't be trained, not even in a film school like VGIK (Soviet All-Union State School for Film Art and Cinematography).
(Alexander) Dovzhenko saw it, he said: "Let's see it again." For the first time in the history of VGIK, the examination board decided to watch a diploma film twice.
It appears that VGIK was packed with talent at that time.
www.armeniadiaspora.com /events/parajanov/interview.html   (4345 words)

  
 My favorite links
In 1954 he successfully applied for admission to the prestigious All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow.
His friendship with Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky led to the joint script for The Steamroller and the Violin, Tarkovsky's debut film which earned him the degree at VGIK, and which already reveals significant elements typical of his later work.
Tarkovsky's first major film was shown in Moscow in April 1962.
www.kathymehr.com /other_links.htm   (2123 words)

  
 Yuri Kara - Moviefone
Graduating from the film direction department at Moscow's VGIK in 1986, filmmaker Yuri Kara earned critical acclaim and multiple awards for his...
From All Movie Guide: Graduating from the film direction department at Moscow's VGIK in 1986, filmmaker Yuri Kara earned critical acclaim and multiple...
Graduating from the film direction department at Moscow's VGIK in 1986, filmmaker Yuri Kara earned critical acclaim and multiple awards for his diploma film...
movies.aol.com /celebrity/yuri-kara/96756/main   (117 words)

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