Young filmmakers congratulated the Presidential Library on the 10th anniversary

24 May 2019

On May 23, 2019, the Festival of Children's Multimedia Creativity, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Presidential Library, took place in the building on Senate Square, 3.

By tradition, the last May meeting of the Presidential Library’s cinema club is dedicated to the creativity of children's film studios in the field of making animated multimedia films. This year, the audience saw not only the works of students of children's multimedia studios of the city entitled “Developing Figurative Thinking”, but also video greetings marking the 10th anniversary, received from children's studios - regular participants of Presidential Library’s cinema clubs.   

Thus, for example, congratulating the Presidential Library from M-Art children's multimedia studio, whose work has more than once won diplomas of various levels and won the recognition of a cinema club audience, a winged sculpture connecting the buildings of the Senate and the Synod, young filmmakers put a book in their hands: 10. Ten years of hard work in digitizing Russian history in rare and modern documents, photographs, newsreels and multimedia works - and the book has become its symbol...

The right to open the event was given to young artists and their teachers from school № 616 - a rehabilitation center with individual forms of learning “Dynamics”. They are already well known to the audience of the Presidential Library, so they were greeted with warm, prolonged applause.

“We are more often engaged in poetry”, - said Alexey Dukhovnikov, art director of the school-cinema studio, addressing the audience before watching the two films “Dynamics”. “It acts amazingly on the hearts of our children, they are very susceptible to it and are generally a priori talented”. And the director of the studio Fyodor Prozhog added that the artists of “Dynamics” worked with the prose - sometimes with the real prose of life, as shown in the story “My Choice”, which is a whole idea of ​​the guys.

The film “My Choice” was filmed in the conditions of the school canteen, where the chef plays the accordion “Chardash Monty”, and the children, while discussing the menu they offer every day, learn to make their own choices, to which they have the right. 

Studio Club "Patriot" of the school № 323 in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg showed the work of Experimentarium TV company created by students of the 5th "E" class, "About books and not only", where children raise the theme of the book’s significance to the proper height, proving that reading creates personality.

The theme of the festival-2019 is "Developing Figurative Thinking". The technique of mastering the typography (scattering letters) can be studied, for example, using the example of the film “Dreams” of the M-Art studio, based on the book “Dream-book or Dream Interpretation” by Gustav H. Miller. This ingenious educational project for the course “Typography in Multimedia” used fragments of Sergey Kuryokhin’s soundtrack for the film “Mister Designer”.

Yegor Soldatov from M-Art has prepared a portfolio of studio students, which included the best works, some of them managed to establish themselves abroad. These are films “Ivan Turgenev and Polina Viardot”, “Space and we”, “The Red Book”, “The Bronze Horseman”. The last is read by the actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky. The best film works of the M-Art studio are included in the Presidential Library’s collections.

At the end of the festival, the Malyshariki studio (Ricky Production Center) held a master class for young filmmakers on how to create educational cartoons for kids and showed three films: “Hero”, “Smeshinka” and “Book”.

The cinema club is co-organized by the Lennauchfilm Film Studio, the St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, the Russian Institute of Art History and the Youth Center of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. 

Schoolchildren and teachers from Crimea and Tyumen attended the event on Senate Square, 3 via video-conferencing mode.