Jan Vizinberg Biography

Yan Vizinberg: “The story developed from the fragments” On June 10, Tatyana Filippova at the Boris Yeltsin museum on May 24, as part of the Media in the Museum project, was conducted by Yang Vizinberg, the producer and creative director of the company Lorem IPSUM, which was responsible for the multimedia content of the Yeltsin Center. They do not just complement traditional forms of exhibiting - they form a modern museum environment.

Jan Vizinberg is a person as legendary, so multifaceted. He is a screenwriter, actor, operator, director. But for us, he is primarily one of the creators of the museum. His company began work when the museum space consisted of beams and concrete walls. It was all the more interesting to hear from him how the museum was filled and revived. He explained to the audience why we are talking about dramaturgy in the museum context.

The creation of expositions and exhibitions is a narrative art, and like any narrative, Vizinberg emphasized, the exposition strives for drama. Just as literature and cinema came to this in due time. We have it - this is Boris Yeltsin. This hero should have important events that violate his life balance. This is the October plenum of the year, when Yeltsin asks him to dismiss him from his position.

Thus, the story begins in the “first day” of our exposition. The next story is an attempt to restore balance. He is hindered by some forces with whom he fights. Such a confrontation is called - conflict. In good films and books, you know, there are three levels of conflict. A conflict with a personified enemy, to whom the main character is opposed.

A conflict with a system with which our hero cannot cope alone. And then he needs to raise the people. And the third conflict, the most difficult - conflict with oneself is a constant internal struggle. When all three conflicts appear, then the complex dramatic narrative is obtained. Here in the museum there is such a narrative. Vizinberg invited the tourists with him to go through the exposition and understand how its halls, multimedia solutions and exhibits fit or do not fit into the script whether they are a single dramatic space.

The tour lasted a little more than an hour and ended in the Freedom Hall. Jan recalled that during the filming of an interview for interactive columns, he made a lot of human discoveries for himself. We shot it in the year. After the events in Bolotnaya Square, many people asked not to ask them uncomfortable questions, they said: “Do not ask me about it! It is curious that these were people who have nothing to lose, the eighty -year -old main arts from theaters.

And it was also amazing that young people who were just what to lose, spoke freely about it. For example, Vanya Urgant, leading Channel One. You see his interview on the columns - he talks about freedom. And this is important and interesting today, ”Yang summed up. In the first hours of his stay in the Yeltsin Center, he gave an interview to the site. We arrived every day and 3-4 hours, until it gets tired, we shot an interview.

Today we have 15-20 hours an interview with her, which are still waiting in the wings. For obvious reasons, only a small part of this interview entered the exposition. Our task was to make all multimedia and interactive content: everything on the screens; Everything that moves; Everything that is pressed on the buttons; All that you can delve into. We started with an interview.

To the opening of the museum, we took them with more people - eyewitnesses of events, presidents of foreign countries, with ministers, security forces, with family members Boris Nikolayevich. At first, we had to accumulate an array of information. Having accumulated several hundred hours, we were already starting from this in the formation of content. Therefore, the decision was simple.

Another thing is that it was quite difficult to “blind” all this content. Memory is such a thing that plays games with people. They tell the same stories for two decades and at some point begin to remember their own stories more than what actually happened. Memories are capsulated and turned into pills. We had a lot of interviews, and we could listen to different sides.

The story consisted of the fragments, as far as objective. Still, these are the memories of people, and people are subjective by nature. The idea of ​​“7 days” existed before us and, fortunately for us, it was invented enough in the film. There is a beginning, middle and end, there is development, everything that is traditionally present in films. Therefore, in the end in the last hall, many cry, because they experience catharsis, similar to what you experience when you read a good book.

When people tell to themselves, when this is part of their personal history, their memory, it is difficult for them to separate important from even more important - to limit the volume that goes to the museum. In fact, everything is important and difficult to choose. Something had to be cut off, and here, of course, there were a lot of installation disputes. All this gathered, praised until it settled in something that suits everyone.Do you notice how the museum is changing?

When was the last time you were in the museum? And the first time - in the year, when the wind walked among the concrete walls here. This transformation was the most significant. We observed how the content was filled in pieces, multimedia equipment and exhibits were imported. After the opening, the museum healed his life. Returning here, I see that the museum does not fade at all, but, on the contrary, is becoming more dynamic.

This is a constant exposition, it does not imply cardinal changes. But, of course, changes will occur every five or ten years. Firstly, over time, revaluation occurs, some tricks are obsolete. Secondly, as the exposition is developed, you can strengthen and modify something. I think these changes will not only be technological. The museum is a memorial, it has a certain tendentiality in the presentation of the material, it cannot but be, because this is the first presidential center in our country.

But perhaps some accents will change. Should the museum be replenished with new exhibits? Probably yes. But this should happen very carefully, because the exposition was built for a very long time, scrupulously, I would not want to break the balance. It is like a written book in which new pages or chapters are inserted. The author of the book in any case will be jealous of this, but this does not mean that the book will not become better.

They are not related to this place, but associated with this topic. We make a multi -part documentary about x. Partly on the basis of the material that was shot for the Yeltsin Center. But after the museum opened, we continued to shoot, and shot about a hundred more interviews with completely different people. For example, with the opposition, who opposed Boris Nikolaevich in x.

Now we decided to put all this together, combine all the interviews. Some of them lasted several hours. This is a thousand hours of material. We hope that our film will close the theme X finally, as the “godfather” closed the theme of the mafia. It will be an academic, comprehensive film that will illuminate all questions from perestroika to the resignation of Boris Nikolaevich.

And on the basis of all these interviews, we publish a book. Despite the fact that they have already heard a lot of positive reviews from their friends and acquaintances when they get here, their impressions are superior to their expectations. This is the only place in Russia, this is not even in Moscow. Although the Yeltsin Center would not be lost in Moscow. With existing competition, it would still be such a center of attraction.

When we started working on the exposition, we studied, introduced into the material, remembered something, found out what we never knew. And when the first interviews began to shoot, it seemed to us that we were already enough prepared. Two years later, it became clear that we did not know anything. Today we have turned into experts. By the Rutsky tie we can determine whether it is a congress or session of the Supreme Council.

How often do you have to defend your point of view?