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CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times (1622 words) |
 | VGIK, or the Russian State Institute of Cinematography, was founded in 1919 at the instigation of Vladimir Lenin, who saw film as the art form with the greatest potential to spread Bolshevik ideology. |
| The structure of lessons at VGIK is very different from that of Western film schools, where students tend to rotate frequently between different classes and professors. |
| For Hessman, who was 20 years old when she first came to VGIK in 1992, the fact that the school viewed all these fields as prerequisites for filmmaking was daunting in itself. |
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