Seans

The magazine was created in 1989 on the initiative of young Leningrad film critics with the support of Alexander Golutva, director of the Lenfilm.

The first issue was released in May 1990.[2] Since 1994, Seans begins publishing, and since 1997 research activities. The publication of the magazine was suspended for 6 years and resumed in 2004.

In parallel with the print version in the format of thick black-and-white themed double numbers, Seans 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 publication of the magazine “Session” has been actively developing in social networks.

The articles in the journal are devoted to current events in Russian and world cinema, and through their interpretation in modern society and culture [2].

In 1993, the journal founded the Seans publishing house, which publishes collections of scenarios (the Screenwriter’s Library series), monographs about directors, and books about cinema. In 1994, the first book was published Sokurov a collection of creative materials and critical articles dedicated to the works of director Alexander Sokurov.[4] From 2004 to 2014, Seance Publishing House published more than 50 books on cinema, art and history.

The magazine quickly established itself as a serious edition of art criticism. Summing up the last decade of the 20th century, Dmitry Bykov called Seans the main blueprints of the 90s and described the position of its authors as purely aesthetic, since for them life is only an art theme and exists in their minds only to that extent , in which this art is captured.[5][6]

In September 2014, Seans together with CoolConnections organized the first Wes Anderson's Retrospective in Russia in the framework of the Amphest Film Festival, which was held in five cities.[7]

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