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To send your character on a journey, you should take one yourself first...
To create your own kinoworld, you need to observe the world around you. As Ibn Battuta, a medieval scholar and explorer, once said: "Travelling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller". Sometimes you need to get out of your kinoroom, set out on a journey and then come back with a new experience.
When you start taking filmmaking seriously and make your first films, you start looking at your surroundings differently. Everything and everybody becomes a potential reference for your ongoing and future projects. Your perception becomes more acute: you focus on everyday life composition, you listen to random people speaking in the streets, while you stay silent because you want to feel this particular atmosphere, remember it and then recreate it in your film. You might have noticed that the majority of film directors are quite reserved and introvert people. It's not because they don't want to talk
When you start taking filmmaking seriously and make your first films, you start looking at your surroundings differently. Everything and everybody becomes a potential reference for your ongoing and future projects. Your perception becomes more acute: you focus on everyday life composition, you listen to random people speaking in the streets, while you stay silent because you want to feel this particular atmosphere, remember it and then recreate it in your film. You might have noticed that the majority of film directors are quite reserved and introvert people. It's not because they don't want to talk
or have nothing to say — they are just constantly observing.
Also, travelling contributes to your imagination and makes it at least three-dimensional. Have you ever noticed how your perception of a painting changes after you see it at an art gallery close enough to see the brushstrokes, the reflections of light and its true colors? And what about listening to a recorded composition as opposed to a live performance? It's different types of information streaming and energy.
It's difficult to recreate something you've never seen or experienced yourself. It's possible to some extent but it will never be complete and solid. Even famous and successful sci-fi and fantasy films have a strong point of reference to the real world. Otherwise the audience would never feel connected to them.
You know that it's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. So, go out there, observe the world around you, perceive it, focus on its details, remember them, come back and apply your new experience to your kinoideas!
Also, travelling contributes to your imagination and makes it at least three-dimensional. Have you ever noticed how your perception of a painting changes after you see it at an art gallery close enough to see the brushstrokes, the reflections of light and its true colors? And what about listening to a recorded composition as opposed to a live performance? It's different types of information streaming and energy.
It's difficult to recreate something you've never seen or experienced yourself. It's possible to some extent but it will never be complete and solid. Even famous and successful sci-fi and fantasy films have a strong point of reference to the real world. Otherwise the audience would never feel connected to them.
You know that it's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. So, go out there, observe the world around you, perceive it, focus on its details, remember them, come back and apply your new experience to your kinoideas!
To send your character on a journey, you should take one yourself first...
To create your own kinoworld, you need to observe the world around you. As Ibn Battuta, a medieval scholar and explorer, once said: "Travelling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller". Sometimes you need to get out of your kinoroom, set out on a journey and then come back with a new experience.
When you start taking filmmaking seriously and make your first films, you start looking at your surroundings differently. Everything and everybody becomes a potential reference for your ongoing and future projects. Your perception becomes more acute: you focus on everyday life composition, you listen to random people speaking in the streets, while you stay silent because you want to feel this particular atmosphere, remember it and then recreate it in your film. You might have noticed that the majority of film directors are quite reserved and introvert people. It's not because they don't want to talk or have nothing to say — they are just constantly observing.
Also, travelling contributes to your imagination and makes it at least three-dimensional. Have you ever noticed how your perception of a painting changes after you see it at an art gallery close enough to see the brushstrokes, the reflections of light and its true colors? And what about listening to a recorded composition as opposed to a live performance? It's different types of information streaming and energy.
It's difficult to recreate something you've never seen or experienced yourself. It's possible to some extent but it will never be complete and solid. Even famous and successful sci-fi and fantasy films have a strong point of reference to the real world. Otherwise the audience would never feel connected to them.
You know that it's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. So, go out there, observe the world around you, perceive it, focus on its details, remember them, come back and apply your new experience to your kinoideas!
When you start taking filmmaking seriously and make your first films, you start looking at your surroundings differently. Everything and everybody becomes a potential reference for your ongoing and future projects. Your perception becomes more acute: you focus on everyday life composition, you listen to random people speaking in the streets, while you stay silent because you want to feel this particular atmosphere, remember it and then recreate it in your film. You might have noticed that the majority of film directors are quite reserved and introvert people. It's not because they don't want to talk or have nothing to say — they are just constantly observing.
Also, travelling contributes to your imagination and makes it at least three-dimensional. Have you ever noticed how your perception of a painting changes after you see it at an art gallery close enough to see the brushstrokes, the reflections of light and its true colors? And what about listening to a recorded composition as opposed to a live performance? It's different types of information streaming and energy.
It's difficult to recreate something you've never seen or experienced yourself. It's possible to some extent but it will never be complete and solid. Even famous and successful sci-fi and fantasy films have a strong point of reference to the real world. Otherwise the audience would never feel connected to them.
You know that it's better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times. So, go out there, observe the world around you, perceive it, focus on its details, remember them, come back and apply your new experience to your kinoideas!
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FILM MUSEUMS
A film museum is a great place to have a quick and very informative digest of the film industry's development in one country and its involvement and contribution to the world cinema. You will definitely learn about the film history through exhibits of photographic and film cameras and photographs and films they once captured in time. Some film museums have unique collections of production materials such as scripts, concept drawings, props, costumes, pieces of set decorations, film posters and celebrity autographs. This gives you an excellent opportunity to sneak "behind the scenes" and have a closer look at the filmmaking process.
Film museums can be a useful educational and visual aid for the film history studies since there you can see examples of camera obscura, shadow puppetry, magic lanterns, stroboscopic devices, and flip-books, as well as examples of the early photography - daguerreotypes, calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and other artefacts. Moreover, film museums have archives where you can find rare documentary footage and fiction films as well as old print media connected with cinema. Also, film museum shops can be a good place to find special editions of books or film magazines, and probably the only place to buy film related souvenirs!
Film museums can be a useful educational and visual aid for the film history studies since there you can see examples of camera obscura, shadow puppetry, magic lanterns, stroboscopic devices, and flip-books, as well as examples of the early photography - daguerreotypes, calotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and other artefacts. Moreover, film museums have archives where you can find rare documentary footage and fiction films as well as old print media connected with cinema. Also, film museum shops can be a good place to find special editions of books or film magazines, and probably the only place to buy film related souvenirs!
STATE CENTRAL FILM MUSEUM (Moscow)
The State Central Film Museum is one of the newest Russian museums - it was established in 1989. The Film Museum focuses on three main areas: collection, classification, and description of objects related to film art and its history; exhibitions and expositions related to cinema history; film programs with films considered to be important treasures of the international and Russian cinematographic heritage or highlights of today's filmmaking. Visit website
MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL CINEMA (Turin)
The museum houses pre-cinematographic optical devices such as magic lanterns, earlier and current film technologies, stage items from early Italian movies and other memorabilia. At present it includes 20,000 devices, paintings and printed artworks, more than 80,000 pictures, over 300,000 film posters, 12,000 movie reels and 26,000 books. Inside the museum there is also a panoramic elevator that transports you up to the "small temple" which gives a 360 degrees panoramic view of Turin. It is the museum with the biggest vertical extension of the world. Visit website
DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK (Berlin)
Collecting, preserving, developing, presenting and mediating audiovisual heritage – these have been tasks of the Deutsche Kinemathek since its opening in 1963. Everything related to film and television history are artifacts: Marlene Dietrich's estate, donations by Werner Herzog or the TV documentary filmmaker Georg Stefan Troller, for example, but also important film scripts, which include those ranging from Carl Mayer to Christian Petzold. There is a film archive with copies of more than 26,500 films, as well as a viewable inventory of over 25,000 films on video. Visit website
NATIONAL SCIENCE AND MEDIA MUSEUM (Bradford)
National Science and Media Museum is located in Bradford which became the first UNESCO film city in the world in 2009. Also, it possesses the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the true inventor of moving pictures Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince and his single-lens camera that he invented in 1888. Moreover, the museum has seven floors of galleries with permanent exhibitions focusing on photography, television, animation, videogaming, the Internet and the scientific principles behind light and colour. It also hosts temporary exhibitions and maintains a collection of 3.5 million pieces in its research facility. The venue has three cinemas, including an IMAX screen. It hosts festivals dedicated to widescreen film, video games and science. Visit website
MUSEU DEL CINEMA (Girona)
The museum was created from the Tomàs Mallol Collection of pre-cinema and cinema objects in 1998, and is the first of its kind in Spain. Currently the Tomàs Mallol Collection is made up of approximately 12,000 pieces, including instruments, accessories, photographs, engravings and paintings, along with 2000 posters and film publicity material, 800 books and magazines and 750 films in all formats. The exhibition allows you to follow and understand the history of images and the evolution of audiovisual spectacles step by step, from Chinese shadow theatre puppets to the first years of cinema. Visit website
INSTITUT LUMIÉRE (Lyon)
The Institut Lumière is a museum that honours the contribution to filmmaking by Auguste and Louis Lumière - inventors of the cinematographe and so-called "fathers of the cinema". It was founded in 1982 by Bernard Chardère and Maurice Trarieux-Lumière, the grandson of Louis Lumière. The museum is located within the house of the Lumière family in Lyon, France. The film "Workers Leaving The Lumière Factory in Lyon", one of the earliest motion pictures ever made, was shot in the immediate vicinity of the Institut. Visit website
MUSÉE MINIATURE ET CINÉMA (Lyon)
Dan Ohlmann creates ultra-realistic miniatures, fascinating creations that he calls "Réels" (the Real Things). Joined by his faithful collaborators, he now dedicates a large portion of his time to his other passion: introducing the public to the exceptional talent of film studio artists. For him and his team, restoring rare pieces from film sets helps to preserve an important part of cinema history: the special effects techniques used before the era of purely digital filmmaking! He particularly appreciates the two immersive arts of miniatures and film special effects because they play with reality, subterfuge and trompe l'oeils. Visit website
LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE (Paris)
The Cinémathèque Française is a French non-profit film organisation founded in 1936 that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world. Based in Paris, the archive offers daily screenings of worldwide films. Visit website
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FILM STUDIOS
Film studio is the heart of the film industry. It is always beating which means it's always working. And if you want to get a preview of your future work process, it's the best place to visit. However, you can visit film studios with guided tours only since everyday shootings take place at stages and at backlots. If you are lucky, you can see the real filmmaking process, but you will be prohibited to take any photos. First, visiting film studios is very educational to understand the inside of the film stages and see their dimensions, set constructions, light grips, green screen aspects, camera placements, etc. Second, it gives you a unique opportunity to travel in time and place by visiting backlots of entire streets from the 19th century, or medieval castles, or ancient temples, and see how all of it can be constructed and shot in one place! It's an extraordinary experience and when you're back to the film studio next time, make it for the production of our own film!
PARAMOUNT PICTURES (Los Angeles, USA)
Paramount Pictures Corporation (aka Paramount) is an American film studio that is a subsidiary of ViacomCBS. It was established in 1912 and is the fifth oldest surviving film studio in the world, the second oldest in the United States, and the sole member of the "Big Five" film studios still located in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Hollywood. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 22 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association (MPA).
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CINECITTÀ (Rome, Italy)
Cinecittà Studios is the largest film studio in Europe, and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. The studios were constructed in 1937 during the Fascist era as part of a plan to revive the Italian film industry. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have worked at Cinecittà. More than 3,000 movies have been filmed there, of which 90 received an Academy Award nomination and 47 of these won it. Visit website
MOSFILM (Moscow, Russia)
The Moscow film production unit with studio facilities was established in November 1923 by the motion picture mogul Aleksandr Khanzhonkov ("first film factory") and I. Ermolev ("third film factory") as a unit of the Goskino works. The famous Mosfilm logo, representing the monument "Worker and Kolkhoz Woman" by Vera Mukhina and Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, was introduced in 1947. Now Mosfilm studio is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein to the Akira Kurosawa co-production "Dersu Uzala" and the epic "War and Peace". Visit website
LENFILM (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Lenfilm is the second largest (after Mosfilm) production branch in Russia. The territory of Lenfilm was originally in the private ownership of the Aquarium garden (and is now Stage # 4 of Lenfilm), which belonged to the merchant Georgy Alexandrov. In 1923 the nationalized Aquarium garden was merged with "SevZapKino" and several smaller studios to form the Soviet State-controlled film industry in St. Petersburg. At that time many notable filmmakers, writers, and actors were active at the studio, such as Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Kheifets, Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitri Shostakovich, etc. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Lenfilm became a quasi-private film production company, retaining its name in spite of renaming of the city of Leningrad to St. Petersburg. Visit website
EALING STUDIOS (Ealing, UK)
Ealing Studios is a television and film production company and facilities provider at Ealing Green in west London. Will Barker bought the White Lodge on Ealing Green in 1902 as a base for film making, and films have been made on the site ever since. It is the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world, and the current stages were opened for the use of sound in 1931. The BBC owned and filmed at the Studios for forty years from 1955 until 1995. Since 2000, Ealing Studios has resumed releasing films under its own name. In more recent times, films shot here include "The Theory of Everything" (2014), "The Imitation Game" (2014), interior scenes of the British period drama television series "Downton Abbey" were shot in Stage 2 of the studios. The Met Film School London operates on the site. Visit website
PINEWOOD STUDIOS (Iver Heath, UK)
Pinewood Studios was built on the estate of Heatherden Hall, a large Victorian country house. In 1935, J. Arthur Rank created a partnership with Charles Boot and together transformed the estate into a film studio. Boot based designs for the studio complex upon the latest ideas being employed by film studios in Hollywood, California. Boot named the new studio Pinewood because "of the number of trees which grow there and because it seemed to suggest something of the American film centre in its second syllable". It is well known as the home of the James Bond and Carry On film franchises. Now Pinewood Group consists of Pinewood, Shepperton and Pinewood Studio Wales; has a unique underwater filming stage and one of the largest exterior tanks in Europe. Moreover, Pinewood opened studios in Toronto, Atlanta, and the Dominican Republic. Visit website
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FILM LOCATIONS
Film locations are very special places to visit especially if they are of your most beloved films. Once you visit them, your perception of these films will change: the space will become more three dimensional and you'll have a better connection to the objects' structures, textures and even smell. Also, you will see how film directors work with original places and change them and their atmosphere according to their visions or, on the contrary, change nothing at all. Of course, in the course of time some film locations could change or even be destroyed, but those which have been preserved unchanged become true gems indeed. And you could have an exceptional opportunity to travel in time to the point when a film was made at this very location!
SNOQUALMIE, WASHINGTON, USA
Snoqualmie is a city next to Snoqualmie Falls in King County, Washington, United States. It is 28 miles (45 km) east of Seattle. Many of the exterior shots for David Lynch's Twin Peaks television series and movie (Fire Walk with Me) were filmed in Snoqualmie and in the neighboring towns of North Bend and Fall City. The Salish Lodge & Spa will always be The Great Northern Hotel. Perched just above the 268-foot Snoqualmie Falls (or "Whitetail Falls") and made world famous by the show's opening credits, it served as the exterior of Benjamin Horne's hotel established by his father in 1927.
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See location / Watch intro
REPUBLIC OF ADYGEYA, RUSSIA
Adygeya is my home region. It is geographically located in the North Caucasus region of European Russia, and is part of the Southern Federal District. Adygeya covers an area of 7,600 sq km, the fifth-smallest Russian federal subject by area, with its territory an enclave within Krasnodar Krai. The territory is rich in mountains, plains, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and different types of forests, therefore, it becomes more and more appealing for various artists. Our latest short mystery film "Dolmen" is entirely shot in Adygeya and reveals another interesting cultural component that this territory possesses. Now we are working on a feature "Dolmen" that would be perfect to make in Adygeya as well since the landscapes and atmosphere are stunning! See location / Watch intro
DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, USA
Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence. The location was named after Christian Brevoort Zabriskie, vice-president and general manager of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in the early 20th century. The company's twenty-mule teams were used to transport borax from its mining operations in Death Valley. Due to its unique beauty, the place is beloved among artists. Michelangelo Antonioni used this location for his "Zabriskie Point" film in 1970.
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VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA
Hanging Rock (also known as Mount Diogenes, Dryden's Rock) is a distinctive geological formation in central Victoria, Australia. A former volcano, it lies 718m above sea level, on the plain between the two small townships of Newham and Hesket, approximately 70 km north-west of Melbourne and a few kilometres north of Mount Macedon. In the middle of the 19th century, the traditional occupants of the place were forced from it. In the late 20th century, the area became very widely known as the setting of Joan Lindsay's novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock". The novel inspired the film "Picnic at Hanging Rock", made in 1975 and directed by Peter Weir. The success of the film was responsible for a substantial increase in visits to the rock and a renewal of interest in the novel.
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ABBEY OF SAN GALGANO,
CHIUSDINO, TUSCANY, ITALY
CHIUSDINO, TUSCANY, ITALY
The abbey formed around the site of the former hermitage of Galgano Guidotti (San Galgano), and construction of the church began around 1220, and was completed some six decades later. Presently, the roofless walls of the Gothic style 13th-century Abbey church still stand. Nearby are the chapel or Eremo or Rotonda di Montesiepi (1185), the tomb of Saint Galgano and the purported site of his death in 1181, the sword said to have been planted in the ground by Galgano and a chapel with frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The abbey was the location where parts of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 film "Nostalghia" were shot. See location / Watch intro
TUSCANY, ITALY
The ancient village of Bagno Vignoni is located in the heart of Tuscany, in the Val d'Orcia Natural Park. Thanks to the Via Francigena (which was the main route followed by pilgrims in antiquity who went to Rome), these thermal waters were found and have been used since Roman times. At the heart of the village is the "Square of sources", namely a rectangular tank, of sixteenth-century origin, which contains the original source of water that comes from the subterranean aquifer of volcanic origins. Since the Etruscans and Romans the spa of Bagno Vignoni was attended by eminent personalities such as Pope Pius II, Saint Catherine of Siena, Lorenzo the Magnificent and many other artists. Bagno Vignoni was the location in which the majority of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1983 film "Nostalghia" were shot. See location / Watch intro
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ART PLACES
This part of kinotravel is dedicated to different places that are connected to art directly or indirectly. In the first place, it is, of course, museums and galleries where you can see famous artworks and historical artefacts. Then it's museums or even house museums of famous writers, musicians, artists, architects, actors, film directors and other artistic creators. And it is also ordinary places which don't have a status of a museum, but still possess some artistic component, energy and atmosphere that could stir your imagination and give necessary food for thought.
UFFIZI (Florence, Italy)
The Gallery entirely occupies the first and second floors of the large building constructed between 1560 and 1580 and designed by Giorgio Vasari. It is famous worldwide for its outstanding collections of ancient sculptures and paintings (from the Middle Ages to the Modern period). The collections of paintings from the 14th-century and Renaissance period include some absolute masterpieces: Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo and Caravaggio, in addition to many precious works by European painters (mainly German, Dutch and Flemish). Visit website
PINACOTECA AMBROSIANA (Milan, Italy)
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books and manuscripts. Shortly after the cardinal's death, his library acquired twelve manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, including the Codex Atlanticus. The library now contains some 12,000 drawings by European artists, from the 14th through the 19th centuries as well as da Vinci's "Portrait of a Musician", Caravaggio's "Basket of Fruit", and Raphael's cartoon of "The School of Athens". Visit website
FRANZ KAFKA MUSEUM
(Prague, Czech Republic)
(Prague, Czech Republic)
The Franz Kafka Museum is located in the remarkable Herget Brickworks building on the Lesser-Town bank of the Vltava River. The exhibition consists of two sections – Existential Space and Imaginary Topography. The first stage of our immersion into Kafka's world presents the way Prague shaped the author's life, the mark it left on him and how its transformative power affected him. His diaries and extensive correspondence with family members, friends, lovers and publishers bear witness to this influence. The second stage is the way in which Kafka depicts his city. With only occasional exceptions, Kafka does not name the places he describes in his novels and stories. Visit website
MORRIS-JUMEL MANSION (New York, USA)
The Morris–Jumel Mansion or Morris House is a Federal style museum home in northern Manhattan with mid-eighteenth century roots. It was built in 1765 by Roger Morris, a British military officer. It is the oldest house in the borough. Between September 14 and October 20, 1776, General George Washington used the mansion as his temporary headquarters. Also, a true inventor of moving pictures Louis Le Prince planned to present the first screening in 1890, at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, where his family was renting rooms. Before he could, however, just weeks before he was to return to New York from France, he disappeared after boarding the Dijon to Paris train and neither he nor his personal effects were ever found... Watch intro / Watch trailer
MUSEI VATICANI (Vatican City)
The Vatican Museums are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze di Raffaello decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments. There are 54 galleries, or sale, in total, with the Sistine Chapel, notably, being the very last sala within the Museum. Visit website
LOUVRE (Paris, France)
The Louvre Museum is the world's largest art museum. Approximately 38,000 objects from prehistory to the 21st century are exhibited over an area of 72,735 square meters. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally built as the Louvre castle in the late 12th to 13th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are visible in the basement of the museum. The collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings. Visit website
TRETYAKOV GALLERY (Moscow, Russia)
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Moscow merchant Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov acquired works by Russian artists of his day with the aim of creating a collection, which might later grow into a museum of national art. Nowadays the collection contains more than 130,000 exhibits, ranging from Theotokos of Vladimir and Andrei Rublev's "Trinity" to the "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich. Visit website
HERMITAGE (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
The State Hermitage Museum is the second-largest art museum in the world, it was founded in 1764 when Empress Catherine the Great acquired an impressive collection of paintings from the Berlin merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky. It has been open to the public since 1852. Museum collections comprise over three million items, including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Watch intro / Watch trailer
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HIDDEN GEM
The Hero's Journey
Joseph Campbell's "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949) is your practical guide and map to build your character and send him or her on a journey. Which steps this character should make and which obstacles face and overcome, you'll find out about it on the pages of this book. And it's not only about the physical journey itself but also psychological and spiritual one. Moreover, it's based on human experience in the first place, so it can be applied to your personal journey as well.
The Hero's Journey
Step by Step
1
Ordinary world
This is the starting point, the Hero's ordinary, every day life, comfort zone, safe place
2
Call To Adventure
Here is the Hero's Journey begins - he or she receives a call to action, usually it's a threat to the comfort zone and everyday life
3
Refusal Of The Call
The Hero has doubts and fears to accept the call since he or she doesn't want to get out of the comfort zone and change
4
Meeting The Mentor
The Hero meets some sort of Mentor who guides him or her and help to overcome the doubts and fears; the Mentor can provide the Hero with some knowledge, skill or object that will help the Hero later during the journey
5
Crossing The First Threshold
That's the point where the Hero leaves his or her ordinary, familiar world and comfort zone, truly begins the journey and steps into the uknown
6
Tests, Allies, Enemies
In this unknown, unordinary world the Hero faces different obstacles and his or her skills are tested; during this stage he or she meets allies who are more familiar with the unknown world and, of course, finds out about enemies
7
Approach To The Inmost Cave
It can be outer or inner place or condition that the Hero as he or she thinks is afraid of most of all and has to overcome it; again the Hero may have doubts and fears at this stage
8
Ordeal
This is the most outer or inner dangerous test for the Hero that he or she is aware of and has to use all his or her knowledge, strength and spirit to face it
9
Reward
After the Hero overcomes his or her greatest fear and/or enemy, changes and becomes a different person he or she may receive an actual reward as some object, or greater knowledge or insight
10
The Road Back
Now the Hero must return back home with his or her reward, however, this final step could hide unknown danger that the Hero has to face but this time as changed person with new experience and knowledge and could even make a more difficult choice how to act
11
Resurrection
This is the climax of the story and the Hero's most dangerous test and encounter with death, apparently the one that he or she didn't know about at the very beginning but now is ready physically and mentally to face it
12
Return With The Elixir
This is the final step for the Hero's journey, he or she returns home with the elixir - a real object or new knowledge, he or she is exactly where the journey started but the Hero now is changed and life cannot be the same anymore
From theory to practice
Let's see how "The Hero's Journey" is very well structured in the following films:
See Neo's Journey
See the journey
See the journey
Now it's time to start your journey!
Sounds like Call to Adventure, huh?! Well, maybe it really does. Maybe right here and right now you indeed find yourself in the ordinary world and comfort zone, but strive for some adventure. Or you've already moved forward in your journey and want to get some navigations. Here it is! Once you learn how to read this Hero's Journey map, you will be able to read not only any film structure, you will be able to read your everyday life structures.
Enjoy your journey and come back with the Elixir :)
Oksana Belousova
CEO & Founder of MY KINOROOM,
Film Director
Film Director
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