Konstantin Shavlovsky, Russian film critic and poet, director of the journal "Seance": biography

Konstantin Shavlovsky is a famous Russian film critic, and also a film critic. At the moment is the editorial director of the popular publication "Session". Poet, director and producer.

Biography of the film critic

Konstantin Shavlovsky was born in Leningrad in 1983. After school he entered the Literary Institute named after Gorky, who graduated with honors.

He started his career on television in 2000year. For 10 years he was the editor of the popular program "What Women Want" on the "Russia" TV channel. In parallel, I worked in the newspaper Kommersant as a journalist, in the Moscow Komsomol member was a special correspondent. Participated in the creation of the program "Cinema in detail" on the channel STS. At this stage of his career, he first began to deeply understand the cinema, to delve into this topic.

As a TV presenter, he made his debut on "The Fifth Channel" in the program "Night on the Fifth".

Craze for film criticism

Specialize in the work of film criticismKonstantin Shavlovsky began in 2004, when he became deputy editor in the publication "Session". In 2010, the publication opened its own website, where he became the editor-in-chief.

Over time, he developed a relationship with bothwell-known specialist in cinema. He wrote a number of articles for the encyclopedia "The Newest History of Russian Cinema, 1986-2000". In 2007 he founded the artistic creative association "Workshop" Seance "together with the director and film critic Lyubov Arkus who took part in the creation of several films.

In 2011, was included in the film festival "Kinotavr". He was a member of the selection committee at the International Film Forum in St. Petersburg.

In 2010, Konstantin Shavlovsky created an intellectual literature store called "The Order of Words". Today it is one of the most notable centers of modern culture of St. Petersburg.

Journal "Session"

At the moment the main work of Shavlovskyis connected with the leadership of the "Session". He is editorial director. "Session" is a black and white magazine about cinema, which has been published since 1989. Its founders were Alexander Golutva and Lyubov Arkus, already mentioned in this article. Periodicity of output - once in six months.

Materials of the publication are devoted to the most actual events in the domestic and world cinema. Through them, an assessment of contemporary culture and the state in which the present society is located is given.

Konstantin Shavlovsky, whose biography is closelyis connected with the cinema, has proved to be on the good side, having appeared in one of the best art publications of the country. Many experts know this media as the main domestic magazine about cinema in the 21st century.

Domestic literary critic and journalist GlebMorev considers Seans magazine a new art criticism of journalism and literature, which manages to combine Petersburg intelligibility with scrupulous knowledge of the context and understanding of the ultimate goal.

Creativity Shavlovsky

Konstantin Shavlovsky, whose poems were very popular, released several poetry collections. His work is highly appreciated by many readers and critics.

They note that the work of ShavlovskyBribes with its realism, interest, as well as the semantic load. His poems are often like prose. Behind all texts you can see the power and strength, which is based on a rich life experience.

Film-making

It is noteworthy that KOnstantin Shavlovsky is a film critic who does notonly evaluates other people's films, but also takes part in creating their own movie masterpieces. In 2009, he made his debut as a director in the documentary "Someone, but not You". The script for this film he wrote together with Sergei Gelver.

In this 36-minute picture in the camera lensthe last four decades of our country's life. Among them there are many different moments. The problematic is shown through people, the immediate heroes of the film. These are ordinary workers, some of them are winners of socialist competitions, other simple scientists or students, all residents of St. Petersburg. At the studio of documentary films, together with the creators of the film, they watch newsreels, recall the past, often the best commentary to what they see is the silence that the camera fixes.

Spectators have the opportunity to observe the reactionheroes of the picture, while reflecting on the nature of human memory, as well as existing nostalgic connections with the Soviet past. They, in the opinion of the creators of the picture, are riddled with modern Russia.

In 2010, Shavlovsky acted as a producerin the short film Rustam Khamdamov "Diamonds: Theft." The events in the picture unfold in the 1920s in Leningrad. The film begins with the fact that the girl carefully examines the jewelry store window, then goes inside and asks her to show a brooch with diamonds. At the same time, she hardly makes a crime. Carefully shears the thread on the beads of a woman who is standing at the counter with scissors. When everyone starts to collect scattered pearls, the girl runs away from the store with a stolen diamond brooch.

"Anton is here"

In 2012, the hero of our article becameexecutive producer of the documentary "Anton is here". The picture was shown in the out-of-competition program of the Venice Film Festival. There he even received the Silver Mouse Award.

The picture tells about the main character AntonKharitonov, who suffers from autism. His mother Rinata dies of cancer. She is not long in this world. Therefore, the young man has to live in social shelters. There he is not given adequate help, so his condition only worsens.

The working title of the painting is "Out." Anton is a real person with autism. Director Lyubov Arkus found him shortly before the shooting of the film, after the Internet spread his text entitled "People." He originally appeared in the journal "Session".

In real life, after his mother died, Anton lived for some time in an apartment near Arkus. At the moment he moved to the Leningrad region, where he settled with his father's new family.