May 20-23 2016.
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN
is becoming increasingly popular across the country and I was delighted to be
invited for a special Museum Weekend of screenings in St Petersburg and Moscow.
I attended 6 museum screenings and every one was packed. It was also great to see such a mixed demographic - lots of
youngsters, young couples as well as our more traditional older audience.
Just as exciting of course was to wander the streets of St
Petersburg - home of the extraordinary Hermitage Art Gallery (that we are to be
working with soon) - and Moscow the next day.
I had been to Moscow in the 1990s while making a film about
Marshall Zhukov - and it's barely recognisable today. Modern, thriving,
wealthy - at least on the surface in the centre of the city. I went to visit the
Pushkin and Tretyakov museums too - stunning collections. I can't wait to come back.
