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...
In the spotlight of the new issue of KINO! is the relationship between film and architecture. Writers approach this relationship very differently. Peter Karba’s article is a theoretical examination of the formal and historical similarities and differences between film and architecture. The articles by Tobias Putrih and Celie Eckert and Nace Zavrl seek a connection between film and architecture ...
KINO! 40/41 brings formally diverse analyses of contemporary breakthrough films, a series of interviews with selected filmmakers, a study of the oeuvre of the unique Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa and a thematic block dedicated to Miha Vipotnik, a Slovenian director of short experimental videos and films. The School Period section continues the discussion on genre films, while select studies ...
Last Thursday, the 2019 France Brenk Award for outstanding achievements in the field of film culture was presented to Matjaž Ivanišin for his masterpiece Oroslan(2019)!! With each new work Ivanišin invents a new relationship between fiction and documentary. Following the method of subtraction - a series of situations slowly cleaned to the core - Ivanišin built a simple film world. Based on Zdr...
In the Breakthroughs section some authors discuss the outstanding contemporary films of domestic and foreign production, while others talk to filmmakers about their work and artistic path. The Film Education section brings, among other things, a report from the international Luksuz Production workshop and the views on film education of several teachers involved in the Understanding Film project...