The 57th edition of KINO! opens up the question of film’s materiality – whether it concerns the materiality of celluloid, the body, the gaze, or memory. The opening section, Found Footage / Archive, explores various aspects of archival and found footage filmmaking – from Périot’s Returning to Reims (Fragments) to Tscherkassky’s analogue aesthetics and Morrison’s poetics of decaying images. The ...
Upon the centenary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s birth, this double issue of KINO! devotes a special thematic section to his provocative and elusive film expression. 130 years after the birth of Herman Potočnik Noordung, the writers in the Film and Technology section gaze at the dark space screen. The Breakthroughs section includes discussions on Sara Kern's film debut, Julie Ducournau's Titane (202...
With a special thematic section, KINO! 45 looks at the visible and invisible (internal and external) landscapes that the Iranian master of poetic filmic ideography Abbas Kiarostami put on celluloid film. Within the fresh local and regional production (in the broader region of the so-called Yugosphere), it recognises the breakthrough nature of the new (anti-)newsreel by Nika Autor, a recipient o...