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 ...
The KINO! 55/56 double issue starts off with two In Memoriam sections dedicated to David Lynch and Vinci Vogue Anžlovar. The texts in the two sections range from personal memories of both filmmakers or their films to detailed theoretical and critical discussions of their works. Two interviews focus on two groundbreaking Slovenian filmmakers and Slovenian cinema is also the subject of some of th...
In the thematic block on film and sound, the authors consider the inscription of the subject in sonic materiality (Tarkovsky), sound as a medium of the unheimlich and the soundscape beyond the soundtrack (Lynch), the investigation of how film materializes the horrors of genocide through sound (Glazer), and silence (Brakhage). With the interweaving of a variety of texts – from mini-notes to stud...
The core of the KINO! 52/53 double issue is the thematic section Resistance!, which follows the idea of resistance at two levels: it primarily considers substantive resistance, the reflection on and the realisation of the different in film; but resistant films are not only films showing resistance but also films financed in guerrilla ways and originating in all sorts of non-institutional framew...
With a number of diverse studies, this special edition examines film and ecology. In his metatext, Tadej Troha considers the beginning and the end of climate crisis, Tomaž Grušovnik paints the modes of representing nature in films, while Kaja Kraner provides the historical premises of representing nature, foregrounding the term dark ecology. Based on unusual experiments, Becca Voelcker thinks a...
With its thematic section, KINO! 49/50pays tribute to Ema Kugler, whom Sabina Đogić conversed with in an extensive, honest and scintillating interview. The set of interviews consists of conversations with Slovenian and foreign theoreticians and practitioners (James Benning has, for example, returned to the pages of KINO!). The Breakthroughs section brings reflections on the more prominent ...
KINO! 48 examines the connections between films and music videos arising from the sensibility for filming music and musicalising film, collective critical engagement, video-like film sequences or filmic videos… Diverse reflections are accompanied by interviews with successful Slovenian music video directors (the Insan collective, Matevž Jerman and Niko Novak). The 130th anniversary of the birth...
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...
KINO! 43/44 brings a mix of new studies on filmmakers that the readers might be familiar with from previous issues (e.g. Jelena Maksimović and Ivan Ramljak), film classics (e.g. Agnès Varda and Frederick Wiseman) and new discoveries (e.g. Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter and Mariusz Wilczyński). The thematic section on cinema and animal ethics focuses on interesting contemporary film representations o...