The project entitled Cinema Education in the Hermitage arose in 2003 as one of the important stages in implementing the high priority program of the Youth Center relating to art of the 20th and 21st centuries. The goal of the project is to familiarize the audience with the history and semantic peculiarities of the cinematographer's lexicon which played such an important role in the development of all forms of visual art in the 20th century.

The director of activities, well-known Petersburg cinema specialist Yu. A. Shuisky, offers participants an extensive and highly diverse program which includes both recognized masterpieces and little known, sometimes quite rare films. Each screening is accompanied by an introductory lecture and is followed by discussion of what has been seen. Often students are able to address their questions directly to the creators of the films. In cooperation with large cultural centers showing films in Petersburg, the Youth Center puts on screenings for the broad public, well beyond the student audience, arranging theme festivals and special programs.

Among the outstanding events that should be mentioned is the festival of Italian silent films entitled Mute Divas which was arranged jointly with the Museum of Cinema and the General Consulate of Italy in 2004, the program of films by young French directors in April 2005, the exhibition entitled Before Ingmar Became Bergman and the screening of documentary films which coincided with that exhibition and marked the Ingmar Bergman anniversary in June 2005.
me Bergman and the related screening of documentary films marking Ingmar Bergman's jubilee year (June, 2005).

Introductory remarks to a film

Discussing a film