KINO! 58/59 has been published!

KINO! 58/59 focuses on contemporary Slovenian filmmaking. The opening thematic section, New Wave, brings together essays by Matjaž Zorec, Eva Mahkovic, Robert Kuret, Ula Talija Pollak and Darko Štrajn on key recent works by Slovenian women filmmakers, with particular attention given to the feature films of Ester Ivakič, recipient of the France Brenk Award, Kukla and Urška Djukić. Contemporary Slovenian cinema also remains at the forefront of the Interviewsection, which features conversations with Ester Ivakič and Kukla, alongside interviews with Prešeren Fund Award recipients Petra Seliškar and Gregor Božič, as well as Nika Jurman, Rok Kajzer Nagode and Anja Medved. Another thematic focus is devoted to the work of Anja Medved and Nadja Velušček: under the title Micro-Historiographing, essays by Nino Grohar, Blaž Andrašek, Eva Pavlič and Lina Horvat approach the authors’ oeuvre from different critical and theoretical perspectives. The Breakthroughs section includes two readings of God Will Not Help (Bog neće pomoći, Hana Jušić) by Emanuel Krajnc and Lucija Furač, while Blaž Kavšek writes on Peacemaker (Mirotvorac, Ivan Ramljak), Nerina T. Kocjančič on Sirât (Oliver Laxe), and Darko Štrajn on Franz (Agnieszka Holland). In Sharpening the Gaze, Maša Guštin examines the intersections of Marina Gržinić’s theoretical and artistic practice, while Oskar Ban Brejc reflects on the paradoxical manifestations of heat as a modality inaccessible to cinema. Veronika Šoster turns to the television series Severance (Dan Erickson), exploring the overlap between the corporate and the uncanny. Questions of feminism also emerge in the issue’s peer-reviewed section, where Manca Tea Devetak revisits feminism through Daisies(Sedmikrásky, Věra Chytilová), while Ana Pikovnik explores the relationship between postfeminism and the figure of the teenage femme fatale.