Премьер-министру российского правительства Дмитрию Медведеву

Место русских и советских фильмов — среди величайших произведений искусства последнего столетия. Мы, кинематографисты и синефилы со всего света — из Европы, Америки, Азии — многим им обязаны. Мы смотрим фильмы Сергея Эйзенштейна и многих других и благодаря этому открываем особые, уникальные способы существования данной формы искусства. Мы, конечно, не можем быть хранителями этого наследия, этих сокровищ. Мы доверяем великим русским историкам кино поддерживать огонь, горящий в этих фильмах, помогать нам понимать их ценность.

Те из нас, кто встречал Наума Клеймана, знают, что он — один из таких ученых. Многие десятилетия он защищал и блистательно преподносил произведения Эйзенштейна, Бориса Барнета и многих других кинематографистов. Клейман и команда московского Музея Кино для целого поколения стали примером мудрости, щедрости и научной компетенции мирового масштаба, которому могу поучиться в любой синематеке или архиве.

Поэтому мы глубоко озабочены известием о том, что Клейман и его сотрудники были уволены с должности хранителей очага. Мы не знаем политической подоплеки и прочих обстоятельств, но мы хотим максимально громко заявить свой протест против опрометчивых изменений в руководстве российского кино.

Как и в 1968 году, когда кинематографисты от Орсона Уэллса до Карла Теодора Дрейера написали письмо французскому правительству с осуждением отставки Анри Ланглуа, мы хотим заявить: этот Музей кино не только ваш, он и наш тоже. И мы доверяем Клейману и его команде. Они доказали, что мы можем у них учиться. Уважайте их знания и цельность, осознайте, насколько правильно было бы дорожить и доверять им во имя человеческого долга растить культуру будущего из глубоких и бесконечно ценных корней прошлого — и, пожалуйста, отмените свои решения.

Мы призываем всех кинематографистов мира поддержать или подписать это письмо, в знак солидарности и в поддержку синефильского братства.

(перевод журнала Сеанс)

Мark Cousins
Tilda Swinton
Thierry Fremaux

В дальнейшем подписали

Gilles Jacob, president, Cannes Film Festival, France
Marco Müller, director, Rome Film Festival
Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and director of Anthology Film Archives, New York City
Eva Truffaut (François Truffaut's estate)
Béla Tarr, filmmaker, Hungary
Jean-Marie Straub, filmmaker, France
Pedro Costa, filmmaker, Portugal
John Smith, filmmaker, Professor of Fine Art, London
Jonathan Rosenbaum, critic
Jean-Michel Frodon, Film critic, professor, writer
Bernard Eisenschitz, film historian
Alexander Horwath, Director, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
Katya Mtsitouridze, Head of Roskino; Editor-in-chief, Variety Russia; General producer of St. Petersburg International Media Forum
Pierre Léon, filmmaker, critic, Paris
Serge Bozon, film director
Eugène Green, director and writer
João Pedro Rodrigues, Filmmaker, Portugal
Benjamin Heisenberg, director
Tom Luddy, Pacific Film Archive, Telluride Film Festival
David Robinson, Giornate del cinema muto
Jaime Pena, film critic and programmer
Wanda Bershen, founder NY Jewish Film Festval
Ramiro Ledo Cordeiro, filmmaker, Spain
Marina Vinyes Albes, independent film curator
Antti Alanen, Film programmer, National Audiovisual Institute (Finland)
Milena Gregor, Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. Berlin
Ana Pfaff, Editor
Javier Rebollo, Filmmaker, Spain
Nicola Falcinella, critic, programmer for International Critics' Week Venice and filmmaker
Catherine Gautier, Deputy director and Head of Programming, Filmoteca Española
Annamaria Scaramella, Director of Production, Márgenes
James Mackay, producer and curator
Jesse Richards, Remodernist Film Manifesto
Ashtar Al Khirsan
Manuel Asín, Intermedio DVD
Chiara Marañón, content and acquisitions manager, Mubi
Adriana Delgado, film blogger and reviewer
Alejandro Díaz, Head of Programming, Seville International Film Festival and film critic
Gerwin Tamsma, programmer, International Film Festival Rotterdam
Álvaro Arroba, critic and programmer, Spain
Arun Khopkar
Vladimir Léon, filmmaker, producer, Paris
Gonzalo de Pedro Amatria, critic and programmer, Festival del Film Locarno
Francisco Algarín, editor, and all the editorial board members of Lumière magazine
Oona Mosna, Program Director, Media City Film Festival
Elena Hazanov, film director
Carlos Muguiro, Independent curator and researcher (Spain)
Amir Labaki, founder and director, It's All True International Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
Javier Bassas Vila, teacher, University of Barcelona, and subtitle translator
Iris Elezi, Albanian filmmaker
Luis Felipe Labaki, filmmaker, Brazil
Maryna Ajaja, Programmer selector Seattle International Film Festival
Richard Millen
Anne Benhaïem, cinéaste filmmaker
Tatiana (Tania) Detkina, Hruška a Krys s.r.o
Richard Rousseau
Patricia Mazuy, director
Andrea Inzerillo, Artistic Director, Sicilia Queer filmfest
Sébastien Buchmann, cinematographer, Paris, France
Pierre-Marie Goulet, filmaker, France/Portugal
Frédéric Pieretti, actor and director, France
Hervé Joubert-Laurencin, Professeur de cinéma, traducteur, cinéphile, Paris, Université de Nanterre
Cyrille Janisset
Mikael Buch
Lionel Baier, filmmaker, Head of the film department ECAL, vice president of the Swiss Film Archives, Switzerland
Vladimir Perisic, filmmaker, Belgrade, Serbia
José Manuel Sande, critic and programmer
Christiane Aprile
Michel Mella
Thomas Pfanne
Nicolas Saada, screenwriter/director
Premendra Mazumder, film critic and curator; Vice President, Federation of Film Societies of India
Sashi Kumar, filmmaker and film critic, India
Ranjit Hoskote, poet, cultural theorist and curator
Sam Di Iorio, Associate Professor of French, Hunter College, NYC
Misha Boris Anissimov, Cinema Faculty, University of San Carlos, Cebu, Philippines
Maria Bedos
Aline Nicolas, designer, France
Marc Leonard, editor, Paris
Judith Abitol, filmmaker, Paris, France
Amos Gitai
Carole Lauree
Richard Rousseau, casting director
Laurence Guez-Zoberman
Isaac Julien and Mark Nash
Ariel Schweitzer, Les cahiers du cinéma, France
Marie Vermillard, filmmaker
Patric Chiha, filmmaker
Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator, Watershed, Bristol, UK
Marie Anne Guerin, film critic at Trafic, Paris
Dominique Auvray, editor, director, France
Manuela Morgaine, filmmaker, France
Jukka Sammalisto, film critic & blogger, Helsinki
Shelly Silver, artist and filmmaker; Chair, Visual Arts Program, Columbia University, NYC, USA
Jacky Goldberg critic, filmmaker, France
Christoph Terhechte, curator, Head of the Berlinale Forum
Noël Herpe
Pascal Cervo
Yolande Zauberman, Golden Fish Moscow Festival for Ivan and Abraham
Anne Scherrer, teacher, Paris, France
Joaquim Pinto, Nuno Leonel, filmmakers, Portugal
Professor Helen Grace, independent filmmaker; Associate, Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, Sydney College of the Arts; Founding Director, MA Programme in Visual Culture Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Carla Diratz
Sylvie Pras, Responsable des Cinémas, Centre Pompidou
Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, filmmakers and academics
Hélène Strummer
Gloria Vilches, coordinator of Xcèntric, Center of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, Spain
Nicolas Villodre, cinémathécaire et critique
Nicolas Wackerbarth, filmmaker; o-editor of Revolver-filmmagazine, Germany
Edgardo Cozarinsky
Joana Gusmão and Pedro Fernandes Duarte, Portuguese independent film producers
Manuela Morgaine, filmmaker, Paris
Velipekka Makkonen, film critic, member of the Filmihullu film magazine collective
Païni Dominique
Fernanda Coelho, audiovisual conservative, Cinemateca Brasileira, Brazil
Luís Urbano, producer, Portugal
Keith Sanborn, filmmaker, translator, film scholar
Irène Tenèze
Anil Zankar, India
Perry Bard, media artist, New York
Chandita Mukherjee, filmmaker and teacher, Mumbai, India
Michelle Handelman, filmmaker​, professor, New York
Natalie Gravenor, realeyz.tv VOD platform, One World Berlin Human Rights Film Festival
Ross Lipman, filmmaker and archivist
Yann Beauvais, filmmaker
Dick Jewell, artist/filmmaker/tutor, Royal College of Art
Brenda Hutchinson, sound artist, USA
Thomas Beard, Light Industry
Fernando Ganzo
Georg Grotenfelt, filmmaker, Helsinki, Finland
Axelle Ropert, writer and director, France
Masha Godovannaya, visual artist, curator, educator, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, St. Petersburg University, Russia
Aurélia Georges, filmmaker, Paris, France
Patricia Falguières, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Vadim Sher, film composer, Paris
Damien Odoul, filmmaker, France
Milos Stehlik, Director, Facets Cinematheque, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Su Friedrich, filmmaker, USA
Uma Tanuku, documentary filmmaker, Delhi, India
Cecilia Barrionuevo, Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Argentina
Kumar Shahani, University of Delhi
Nadia Brisemure
Kira Jääskeläinen, director and curator, Finland
Lauri Kärk, film historian, University of Tartu
Pierre Gras, Université Paris 7, France
Lauri Kärk, Film historian University of Tartu
Tatiana Chistova, filmmaker / director
Birgit Kohler, Co-director of Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin
Peggy Ahwesh, filmmaker, Professor of Film, Bard College
Ekaterina Sidorkina, story editor, St Petersburg, Russia
Joel Neville Anderson, programmer, Japan Cuts: The New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Anil Sadarangani
Dr. Hans-Joachim Schlegel, film historian, Germany
Professor Birgit Beumers, film scholar, UK
Denis Viren, film historian, film expert of Polish Institute in Moscow
Pascal Privet, programmer and filmmaker, France
Aradhana Seth, filmmaker, production designer
Pablo García, El diablo quizás, Spain
Colette Saint Yves, artist, France
Jacques Bontemps, France
Ko Siu Lan, artist
Vincent Poli, film critic, Cahiers du Cinema
Tony Pipolo, professor emeritus, the Graduate School of the City University of New York
Massadian Valerie, filmmaker
Pascale Bodet, filmaker, France
Leïla Gharbi
Beatrice Albertazzi, professor, Unversidad Columbia, Paraguay
Clemence Lhomme, Paris, France
Jonathan Caouette, film director/actor/film curator, USA
Keith Jones, documentary filmmaker, former programmer, Czech Republic / South Africa
Eva Binder, Department of Slavonic studies, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Gisèle Gordon, filmmaker and programmer, Toronto, Canada
Andrew Horn, director/producer, Berlin
Maxim Kazuchitz, PhD, cinema studies
Rita Azevedo Gomes, film director and programmer, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal
Julia Ivanova, documentary filmmaker, Vancouver, Canada; board member of HotDocs Film Festival, co-chair of DocBC
Giuliano Vivaldi, film writer
Daniel Bird, critic, UK
Pablo Mazzolo, filmmaker; professor, National University of Quilmes, Argentina
Augusto M. Seabra, critic, programmer Doclisboa Film Festival
Yuri Tsivian, William Colvin professor, University of Chicago
Carlos Conceição, writer/director, Portugal
Matías Piñeiro, filmmaker, Argentina
Emilie Pasternak, Paris, France
John Archer, producer, Glasgow, UK
Anne Laurent, international relations, Austrian Film Commission
Chakrapani Ananda, filmmaker, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
David Jancso, film editor, Hungary
Alexander Chusov, filmmaker, Moscow, Russia
Bidhan Jacobs, Doctor in Film Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris; independent curator
Frédéric Papon, Head of studies, La fémis - Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son, Paris
Alberto Barbera, Director, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Director, Venice Film Festival, Italy
Rafi Pitts, filmmaker, Iran
Jacopo Chessa, Managing Director, Italian Short Film Centre
Fran Gayo, programmer, Xixón / Buenos Aires
Alberto Lechuga, critic and film journalist, Sofilm España
Rinaldo Censi, writer, programmer
Paula Arantzazu Ruiz, journalist and film critic, Madrid, Spain
Karina Karaeva, art critic, curator
Elena Oroz, teacher and film critic
Giusy Pisano, ENS Louis-Lumière
Jorge Mourinha, film critic and journalist, Portugal
Bernard Benoliel, Head of Cultural Development, Cinematheque Française
Antonio Somaini, Professor in Film, Media, and Visual Culture Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
José Ramón Otero Roko, film critic, Spain
Cristina Cámara, film and video curator, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Bruno Fornara, critico cinematografico, Italia
Eugenia Gaglianone, researcher of Russian and Soviet cinema, Italy
Gawan Fagard, film historian, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
Pirjo Mikkonen-Joublanc, writer, editor, Finland
Luciano Joublanc, former ambassador, Mexico
Agnès Wildenstein, film curator, France, Portugal
Nick James, Kieron Corless, James Bell, Isabel Stevens and Nick Bradshaw, Sight & Sound, UK
Geoff Andrew, Senior Film Programmer, BFI, UK
Jean Narboni, essayiste, enseignant de cinéma
Katja Gauriloff, filmmaker, Finland
Emile Hertling Péronard, creative producer, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ansgar Vogt, programmer, Berlinale Forum, Berlin
Lea Morin, independent curator and researcher, Morocco
Igor Khadikov, screenwriter and critic
Katharina Fiedler, editor, Germany
Otto Kylmälä, Artistic Director of Loud Silents Festival, Finland
Leandro Listorti, filmmaker, archivist and programmer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr Richard Armstrong, University of Cambridge
Inese Strupule, University College London
Stephen Ujlaki, filmmaker, Dean of the Loyola Marymount Film School
Zoe Beloff, filmmaker and professor, Queens College CUNY, New York USA
Jeanne Liotta, artist/filmmaker, New York City
Toshi Fujiwara, Tokyo
Richard Maxwell, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
Douglas Rushkoff, author, documentarian
Artemis Willis, Ph.D. Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
Paolo Cherchi Usai, Senior Curator, Moving Image Department, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
Marc Siegel, Film scholar/Curator, Asst. Professor of Film Studies at the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Juliet Koss, Director, Humanities Institute, Scripps College, 1030 Columbia Avenue, Claremont California
Rossella Catanese PhD, Tutor of academic Master in Digital Audiovisual Restoration, Sapienza, University of Rome
Galina Aksenova, Associate professor Moscow Art Theater School, Moscow, Russia
Elena Kostioukovitch, author and translator, Italy
Noah Tsika, film professor, New York
Paulino Viota, critic, filmmaker, Spain
Russell Sheaffer, filmmaker
Prune Engler and the team at Le Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, France
Mara Einstein, professor, Media Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
Emanuela Martini, film critic; Artistic Director, Torino Film Festival, Italy
Minna Långström, artist and filmmaker, Finland
Toni D'Angelo, director, Italy
Antonio Morabito, director, Italy
Vassilis Economou, film critic, 24fpsverite.com
Leslie McCleave, filmmaker; Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Queens College – CUNY
James M. Steffen, PhD; Film and Media Studies Librarian; author of The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Vance Kepley, Jr., director, Wisonsin Center for Film and Theater Research, USA
Amy Herzog, Coordinator of the Film Studies Program; Associate Professor of Media Studies, Queens College, CUNY, USA
Ana Fernandes Rodrigues, film student, Portugal
Silvia Kolbowski, artist, New York
Mariagrazia Morrone, editor
Allyn Hardyck, translator, Paris
Martiros Vartanov, Parajanov-Vartanov Institute
Stefan Ivančić, filmmaker, Belgrade, Serbia
Andrei Ujica, filmmaker, director of the HfG|ZKM Film Institute, Karlsruhe
Eric Muzzy, cinematographer
Angela Haardt, curator, Berlin
Julia Gibbs, Film Studies Center, University of Chicago
Marian Masone, Senior Programming Advisor, Film Society of Lincoln Center; Selection Committee, New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, USA
Mona Nicoara, documentary filmmaker
Serra Yilmaz, actress, Turkey
Chema González, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain
Carolina Mancini, film journalist, Italy
Daniele Gaglianone, filmmaker
Gian Luca Farinelli, Director Cineteca di Bologna
Guillaume Poulet, Director of the Film Archives of Grenoble and the Short Film Festival of Grenoble, France
Frédéric Maire, Director of Cinémathèque suisse - National Film Archive
Prof. em. Dr. Christine N. Brinckmann, Berlin, Germany
Anup Singh, writer, filmmaker, India
Paula Vaccaro, producer, Pinball London Films
François Laffort, Service du Traitement des Films, Cinemathèque française
Eva Markovits, Festival International du Film d'Amiens
Dieter Kosslick, Festival Director of the International Filmfestival Berlin
Nelly Kaplan, France
Sabine Lenk, media archivist
Prof. Dr. Eva Warth, Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, UK
Gaby Babic, Director, GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden, Germany
C. Cay Wesnigk, director, producer and distribution application service provider
Tomás Baltazar, editor, filmmaker, programmer
Juan Ignacio Lahoz Rodrigo, CulturArts-IVAC, Arxiu Fílmic-Cap de conservació, Spain
Michael Eaton, dramatist, UK
Prof.dr. Daniel Biltereyst, Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
Timo Malmi, artistic director of Midnight Sun Film Festival, Finland
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, National Library of Norway
Giogiò Franchini, film editor
Martin Girod, former co-director Filmpodium der Stadt Zürich
Dr. Christine Engel, Institut für Slawistik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
Koen Van Daele, Assistant Director, programming, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Robert Hensley-King, PhD Candidate, Ghent University, Belgium
Áurea Ortiz Villeta, Valencian Film Archive; professor of the University of Valencia, Spain
Tom Vick, Curator of Film, Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Bruno Malveira, Press Coordinator at Doclisboa - International Film Festival
Anna Lawton, Georgetown University
Eric de Kuyper, writer, filmmaker, ex deputy director of the Nederlands Filmmuseum, member of the board of the Cinematek Brussels
Regina Schlagnitweit, Austrian Film Museum
Maria João Madeira, programmer, Cinemateca Portuguesa, Portugal
Rashmi Doraiswamy
Hal Foster, professor and critic
Dina Iordanova FRSA, Professor of Global Cinema and Creative Cultures; Director, IGCCC; Publisher, St. Andrews Film Studies, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Alessandro Lunardelli, director, Italy
Josep M. Català, Dean of the UAB Communication Science Faculty, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Joel Daire, Acting Director of Collections, La Cinémathèque française
Ulrich and Erika Gregor, co-founders of the Arsenal Cinema and of the International Forum of the Berlinale
Eva Jørholt, film historian, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lauri Timonen, critic, writer, filmmaker, Finland
Lalitha Gopalan, Associate Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, The University of Texas at Austin
Daniel Hui, filmmaker
Heather Stewart, Creative director, BFI, London