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Friday 9.3.2001
First Visit in Finland
Nikitin Looks at Suomenlinna, Kiasma and Finnish Films
Nikolai Nikitin is one of the International Jury members at the Tampere Film Festival. He arrived for his first visit of Finland on Saturday. Before coming to Tampere he got acquainted with Helsinki, visiting Suomenlinna, the sea fortress, and Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art. He also saw Finnish short films and full-length feature films such as The Ambush and Bad Luck Love.
The Editor-in-Chief Wants a Youthful Style in Writing
Film Magazine Schnitt can be found at www.schnitt.com
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The Russian-born Nikitin has set up the film magazine Schnitt in his home country Germany and is the editor-in-chief of the magazine. In English, "Schnitt" means editing. He has studied Film and Television Science and Art History in Bochum, Germany.
Schnitt's approach to film is different from the traditional film criticism. Nikitin thinks that the German film critics concentrate on retelling the story too much. In Schnitt, writing should be new, youthful and personal.
The reporters of Schnitt are interested in the film's effect on the viewer and in the film's technical realization. They are also interested in how films are connected to other media, phenomena and other arts, such as painting.
Schnitt covers film history, film theory and people in the film industry and introduces little known German filmmakers and actors. Every magazine has its own main theme.
"We do not exclude commercial films, only because they are commercial. We exclude bad commercial films."
Interested in Finnish Film
Nikitin would like to cover Finnish films more extensively now that he has seen Finnish films in Helsinki. In Germany, Finnish films are not known or screened outside film festivals, with the exception of films by the Kaurismäki brothers. He finds it interesting that Finnish moviegoers favour Finnish films and that the topics are both the Second World War and Finnish entertainers.
Every Schnitt Tries to Cover Short Films
Schnitt is the only German film magazine covering short films; other magazines do not really write that much about short films.
More Than Just a Film Magazine
Schnitt is not only a magazine: they also publish books. The magazine Schnitt comes out four times a year. The readers are students and people who work in the media industry, aged 18-40. Schnitt also has a very active website at http://www.schnitt.com.
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