This abridged version of Valery Podoroga's lectures, delivered in 2014-2015 at the Moscow School of New Cinema, is presented to the reader. In this course, the author explores the imaginary as a precondition for cinema's possibility and develops concepts such as the "unconscious," "dream," "screen," "the Other," "violence," and "fear." Analyzing the structure of the moving image, Podoroga demonstrates that it cannot be reduced solely to cinematic techniques, ideologies, and discourses, but rather expresses a more complex anthropological and psychoanalytic experience. The author examines numerous examples from cinema, including Michael Haneke's "Hidden" and "The White Ribbon," Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin" and "Strike," and discusses texts by Sigmund Freud, Ernst Jünger, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Lacan. The central tenet of these lectures is Valery Podoroga's idea that cinema is a visual symptom of a hidden, imaginary experience. Moreover, this experience itself lies at the heart of the work-in-progress embodied by experimental filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries.