KINO! 57

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 section Breakthroughs brings together diverse reflections on Slovenian cinema – from Petra Seliškar’s documentary The Mountain Won’t Move to Urška Djukić’s feminist analysis, the theme of memory in Ceasefire, and Matjaž Zorec’s socio-political readings. A special highlight of the issue are the interviews with breakthrough filmmakers Stefan Đorđević and Stefan Komandarev, who reflect on ethics, social responsibility, and the creative conditions of contemporary filmmaking, and the interview with Prešeren Award laureate Julij Zornik, offering an insight into the intimate logic of film sound and the art of listening. As the Phenomenon, we present Harmony Korine, a filmmaker working between cinema, gaming, and artificial intelligence, discussed by Matej Mihevc and Arne Kušej. The section Reflection includes considerations of slow cinema in Kelly Reichardt’s films, the cinematic representation of Ljubljana, and the spectator’s response to the Greek film Apples. The column Sharpening the Gaze launches a new series, A Small School of Editing, while peer-reviewed essays by Nina Cvar and Marina Gržinić, and Žigi Omerzel, open the space for political documentary film and a feminist reinterpretation of Agnès Varda. This issue’s Pillow Shots bring playful and reflective texts that, with humour, intuition, and cinematic sensibility, trace the softer edge of the magazine. Or, as Herzog would say: “Read, read, read…”