"Session" - a black and white magazine about the movie, published in St. Petersburg. It was founded in 1989 by Love Arkus and Alexander Golutva . It is published twice a year, since 1990 [2] . The editor-in-chief of the magazine, the artistic director of the Session workshop is Lyubov Arkus [2] . The chief editor (acting chief editor of Seance.Ru) is Vasily Stepanov [3] .
| Session | |
|---|---|
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| Specialization | film history magazine |
| Periodicity | comes out four times a year [1] |
| Language | Russian |
| Editorial Address | 197101, St. Petersburg, Kamenoostrovsky pr., 10 |
| Chief Editor | Love arkus |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Publisher | "Session" |
| Established | 1989 |
| ISSN print version | 0136-0108 |
| Web site | seance.ru |
Content
History
The magazine was created in 1989 on the initiative of young Leningrad film critics with the support of the director of the Lenfilm film studio Alexander Golutva.
The first issue was released in May 1990 [2] . Since 1994, "Session" begins publishing, and since 1997 - research activities. The publication of the magazine was suspended for 6 years and resumed in 2004 . By the end of 2014, 58 issues of the magazine [1] were released . In parallel with the printed version in the format of thick black and white thematic double numbers, Session exists online: Seance.ru is a daily portal about cinema and culture. As an appendix to the site and the printed number, since 2012, the publics of the Session magazine on social networks have been actively developing.
Topics and Authors
Articles in the journal are devoted to current events in Russian and world cinema, and through their interpretation - in modern society and culture [2] .
The authors of the magazine are Arkady Ippolitov , Oleg Kovalov , Tatyana Moskvina , Konstantin Murzenko , Andrey Plakhov , Dmitry Savelyev , Avdotya Smirnova , Mikhail Trofimenkov , Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper , Alexey Gusev , Konstantin Shavlovsky , Vasily Stepanov , Lilia Shitenburg, Maria Kuvelshinova Alexey Vasiliev. Among the authors are not only professional film critics and film critics, but also philosophers, art historians, literary critics and writers. Articles for the Session were written by Mikhail Yampolsky , Victor Toporov , Mikhail Trofimenkov, Alexander Sekatsky , Natalya Trauberg , Ekaterina Andreeva , Elena Fanailova , Samuel Lurie , Dmitry Bykov and others [3] .
The magazine quickly established itself as a serious art history publication. Summing up the last decade of the 20th century, Dmitry Bykov called “Session” “the main Sinophilian magazine of the 90s” and described the position of its authors as “exclusively aesthetic”, because “for them, life is only a subject of art and exists in their minds only to the extent in which this art is imprinted ” [4] . According to Gleb Morev , “Session” “combined new cinema and art criticism with new literature and journalism” and turned out to be “almost the only magazine project of the 90s that combined Petersburg intelligibility with a thorough knowledge of the context and a clear understanding of the tasks” [5 ] .
Publisher
In 1993, the Session Publishing House was founded under the magazine, which publishes collections of scripts (a series of “Film Drama Library” series), monographs about directors, and books about cinema.
In 1994, the first book, Sokurov, [6] , a collection of creative materials and critical articles on the work of director Alexander Sokurov , was published.
In 2000–2005 , the efforts of the Session created the seven-volume encyclopedia The Latest History of Russian Cinema , covering the transition period from Gorbachev to Putin [2] .
From 2004 to 2014 , the Session Publishing House published [7] more than 50 books on cinema, art, and history.
Interesting Facts
- Since 2006, the editor-in-chief of the Session magazine, Lyubov Arkus, has led a film studio at the directing department of St. Petersburg University of Film and Television . From the first year students of the workshop of Lyubov Arkus did practical work in the Session magazine, some of them worked in the editorial staff.
- At the suggestion of Konstantin Ernst, from 2006 to 2013, Session was a co-author and consultant of the Closed Screening program by Alexander Gordon [8] .
- Since 2008, "Session" together with producer Artem Vasiliev initiated work on the project "Open Action Cinema" - a series of social advertising spots dedicated to children at various risk groups. To date, three pilots have been shot by producer Artyom Vasiliev, directors Sergey Bodrov Sr. , Pavel Kostomarov and Alexander Rastorguev , cameramen Alisher Khamidkhodzhaev and Fedor Lyass, sound engineer Maxim Belovolov, actors Arthur Smolyanininov and Maxim Lagashkin [9] .
- In April 2014, Session hosted the first Stanley Kubrick Retrospective in St. Petersburg, in the framework of which four Kubrick films were shown at the Aurora Cinema, and producer Jan Harlan became a guest of the Retrospective. [ten]
- In September 2014, Session, together with CoolConnections, organized the first Russian Retrospective of Wes Anderson in the framework of the Amfest Film Festival in five cities. [eleven]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Archive of the journal “Session” . "Session". Date of treatment May 17, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Elena Fanailova . The session lasts 20 years . Radio Liberty (March 14, 2010). Date of treatment May 17, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.
- ↑ Dmitry Bykov. The 90s. Scorpion Gardens . “The Art of Cinema ” (No. 1, January 2001). Date of treatment May 17, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.
- ↑ Gleb Morev. Against the background of gloss . Russian Journal (April 24, 2000). Date of treatment May 17, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.
- ↑ Book of Sokurov, 1994
- ↑ Books of the Session Publishing House . "Session". Date of treatment May 17, 2012. Archived September 12, 2012.
- ↑ TV presenter Alexander Gordon: “Stop giving the viewer pleasure!”
- ↑ Open- air movies
- ↑ Official website of the Stanley Kubrick Retrospective .
- ↑ Wes Anderson's Retrospective Official Website .