KinoKultura

Issue 38: October 2012

Nancy Condee: Fifteen Realities of Russian Cinema: Kinotavr 2012

Maria Kondratova: The Greatness of the Small: Episodes and Supporting Roles in Soviet Cinema of the 1950s-1970s

Tat’iana Moskvina-Iatsenko: The Conflict of Life and Death in Russian New Wave Cinema (2010/11)

Issue 37: July 2012

Jeremy Hicks: “Lenfilm Lives On! The Charm and Curse of Continuity”.
Report on “RealAvantGarde—With Lenfilm Through the Short Twentieth Century,” goEast (Wiesbaden, 18-24 April)

Sergei Kapterev, Nikolai Maiorov: “Belye Stolby 2012: Commemorations and Discoveries”

Gul'bara Tolomushova: “Kyrgyzstan, Nation of Film Festivals”

Issue 36: April 2012

Tatiana Mikhailova: "The Smoke of the Fatherland: Body as Territory, Sexuality as Identity in Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko"

Issue 35: January 2012

Festival Reports
Tat’iana Kruglova and Liliia Nemchenko: "Kinoproba 2011—competition, study, memory"
Eugénie Zvonkine: "A Dynamic Kazakhstan: Eurasia 2011"

Interview

Svetlana Khokhriakova and Birgit Beumers: “Returning to the Roots of Humanity.” Interview with Igor’ Voloshin and Ol’ga Simonova

Issue 34: October 2011

Mihaela Mihailova: “I am Empty Space:” A Mermaid in Hyperreal Moscow

Festival Reports
Birgit Beumers and Nancy Condee: Kinotavr 2011: Russian Cinema as a State of Mind
Julie Draskoczy: The Socialist Avant-Garde at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival
Oskar Sandrock: The Present and Future of Animation: Suzdal 2011

Issue 33: July 2011

Rimgaila Salys: Infernal Energy. Revisioning the Stalin era

Issue 32: April 2011

Dina Khapaeva: From a Vampire’s Point of View

Festival Reports
Sergei Kapterev and Birgit Beumers: Gosfilmofond celebrates: Belye Stolby 2011

Issue 31: January 2011

Anton Sidorenko: The Coma Continues: New Belarusian Cinema
Liliia Nemchenko: Signs of the Everyday in Post-Soviet Cinema

Interviews
Birgit Beumers: Interview with Iurii Shiller: Between document and prose?
Birgit Beumers: Interview with Andrei Stempkovskii: The text is not important…

Issue 30: October 2010

Birgit Beumers: The Self and the Other in Recent Russian Cinema
Tat'iana Kruglova: An Artistic Diagnosis of Modern Russian Cinema: The Little Man vs. the Big Other

Festival Reports
Birgit Beumers: Kinotavr 2010: Migration and Isolation
Alyssa DeBlasio: Films for an Optimist: Saying “Yes” to Life at the 32nd Moscow IFF
Christina Stojanova: The New Vicissitudes of Auteur Cinema in Central and Eastern European Cinema: Karlovy Vary 2010
Gul'bara Tolomushova: The Sunset of a Patriarchal Era: Eurasia 2010

Issue 29: July 2010

Aliya Moldalieva: "Topical Reflections from Twenty Years Ago" (Ailanpa, 1989)

Festival Report
Birgit Beumers: "Suzdal 2010. The Business of Animation"

Issue 28: April 2010

Mariya Y. Boston: "Speaking in Tongues: Poetic Language in Nikita Mikhalkov’s Burnt by the Sun"
Andrey Shcherbenok: "Asymmetric Warfare: The Vision of the Enemy in American and Soviet Cold War Cinemas"

Festival Report
Birgit Beumers: " Restoring Images: Belye Stolby 2010"

Issue 27: January 2010

David MacFadyen: Cinematic Abuse as Self-Affirmation: Russian Video Mash-ups, Illegal Social Networking, and the Rise of Bekmambetov’s “Office Plankton”
Maria Vinogradova: Amateur Cinema in the Soviet Union and the Leningrad of Film Amateurs in the 1970s-1980s

Festival Reports
Dar'ia Borisova: Kinoshok 2009: The Expiring Principle of Soviet Brotherhood

AAASS 2009 Roundtable on Young Kazakh Cinema
Birgit Beumers: Waves, old and new, in Kazakh Cinema
Jane Knox-Voina: Young Kazakh Filmmakers: New “New Wave” on the Road
Stephen M. Norris: The Gifts of History: Young Kazakh Cinema and the Past
Eugénie Zvonkine: “Kazakhstan Rules the World:” Satybaldy Narymbetov’s Mustafa Shokai (2008) and the Rewriting of History

Issue 26: October 2009

Evgenii Margolit: “Monumental Sculptures in Soviet Cinema of the 1920s”

Festival Reports
Birgit Beumers: “A Return to Folklore?—Suzdal 2009”
Birgit Beumers, “Kinotavr 2009: The Victory of New Drama”
Christina Stojanova: “Characters and Circumstances: Notes on the Competition Program of the 31st Moscow International Film Festival”

Issue 25: July 2009

Kristina Matvienko: With a Cine-Eye through Russia: The Festival “Kinoteatr.doc” 2009
Irina Mel’nikova: (Re)presentation of The Metamorphosis: Valerii Fokin, Franz Kafka, René Magritte and the Issue of Cinematic Adaptation

[Interview] Anton Sidarenka: Interview with Sergei Loznitsa. Conversations on Cinema: "A Master of Time"

Issue 24: April 2009

Nikolai Izvolov: Designed Sound in the USSR
Jane Knox-Voina: New ‘New’ Wave Filmmakers Welcome Their Audiences’ Discomfort: Kazakh and Kyrgyz Youth Films
Gulnara Abikeeva: Central Asian Documentary Films of the Soviet Era as a Factor in the Formation of National Identity

Festival Report:
Gulbara Tolomushova: The Secret Sense of the Tashkent Messages

Issue 23: January 2009

Maria Belodubrovskaya: Understanding the Magic: Special Effects in Ladislas Starewitch's L'Horloge magique
Larisa Maliukova: The State of the Art: Russian Animation Today
Evgenii Margolit: The Image of Germans in Russian Cultural Space

Festival Reports:
Birgit Beumers: New Voices and Old Images: Eurasia 2008
Gulbara Tolomushova: Dushanbe Flights to Googoosh's Songs: Didor 2008

Issue 22: October 2008

Klaus Eder: Moscow 2008: The Center of the Province
Nina Tsyrkun: "Forward to the Past, or: What kind of millennium has begun?" (on the Russian Program of the Moscow International Film Festival)
Diliara Tasbulatova: "Kinotavr 19"
Aliya Moldalieva: "New Cinema in Kyrgyzstan"

Issue 21: July 2008

Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium 2008 — The Ideological Occult: Russian Cinema under Putin:

Seth Graham: "Two Decades of Post-Soviet Cinema: Taking Stock of Our Stocktaking"
Stephen Norris: "Packaging the Past: Cinema and Nationhood in the Putin Era"
Marina Drozdova: "Tremors: Various Types of Unrest"
Aleksandr Kiselev: " 'No Power Can Force Us to Live Badly' "
Gregory Dolgopolov: “Liquidating the Happy end of the Putin-era”

Birgit Beumers: "The 13th Open Russian Animation Festival Suzdal" (2008)
Dina Goder: "Kinoteatr.doc 2008: Some Notes on the Cuffs"
David MacFadyen: “The Presumed Threat of Digital Culture to Russian Cinema”

Issue 20: April 2008

Tom Birchenough: The Koktebel Studio
Dar'ia Borisova: The Forum of National Cinematographies Played at Being a Film School
Barbara Wurm: The International Film Festival Rotterdam — A Festival of Significance for Russian Cinema; In Focus: Svetlana Proskurina
Birgit Beumers: Returning to the Roots: Central Asia in Rottterdam

[Interview] Inna Smailova: Interview with Abai Kulbai: The Keeper of Eternal Values in Cinema

Issue 19: January 2008

[Interview] Giulia Marcucci: Interview with Aleksandr Mindadze: From Scriptwriter to Director
Irina Shilova: Renata Litvinova: Actress and Persona

Michael Rouland: A Tour through Kinostan
Inna Smailova: Three Generations of Kazakh Cinematographers: Action - Reaction - Change of Reality
Eugénie Zvonkine: "On a Motorbike or on a Horse?": The IV Eurasia International Film Festival 2007

Issue 18: October 2007

Tom Birchenough: "Vladivostok 2007": The lnternational Pacific Meridian Festival
Mihai Chirilov: "Phony Games: The Moscow International Film Festival 2007"
Jeremy Hicks: “Reflections of Andrei Tarkovskii: The Zerkalo Festival and Conference”
David MacFadyen: “Strike Up, Pipers! The Russian Program of the Moscow Film Festival, 2007”
Kirill Razlogov: "Kinotavr: Caught in the Crossfire"

Issue 17: July 2007

Melodrama and Kino-Ideology: Pittsburgh Russian Film Symposium Roundtable:

Peter Bagrov: "Soviet Melodrama: A Historical Overview"
Dawn Seckler: "Orphans of the Storm: Economic Destitution, Physical Lack, and Social Alienation in the Contemporary Russian Melodrama"
Oleg Sulkin: "Melodrama as the Experience of the Moment"
Dmitrii Savel'ev: "Out of Ideology: The Post-Soviet Melodrama"
Mikhail Trofimenkov: "Origin of the Species: Post-Soviet Melodrama"
David MacFadyen: "Ethical Masochism in Recent Russian Melodrama"
Marcia Landy: "Melodrama: Short Reflections on a Long Subject"

Kristina Matvienko: The Third Festival of Real Cinema: "Kinoteatr.doc" (2007)

Issue 16: April 2007

Jose Alaniz: Cinema without Barriers
Thomas Campbell: A Khakassian Sends a Postcard Home: The Strange Career of Evgenii "Debil" Kondrat'ev
David MacFadyen: Changing Notions of Realism in Primetime Russian TV
Drama
Stephen Norris: In the Gloom: The Political Lives of Undead Bodies in Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch

Issue 15: January 2007

Peter Bagrov: Ermler, Stalin, and Animation: On the Film The Peasants (1934)
Birgit Beumers and Michael Rouland: Eurasia 2006: An International Festival?
Konstantine Klioutchkine: The Kamenskaia Television Series and the Conventions of Russian Television
Alena Solntseva: KINOTEATR.DOC: The First Three Years

Issue 14: October 2006

Svetlana Khokhriakova: Starless, Prize-less: The Moscow International Film Festival 2006
Adam Lowenstein: From the Tsars to the Stars: A Journey Through Russian Fantastik Cinema (Lincoln Center Program, August 2006)
Elena Plakhova: Victims of Euphoria: The 17th Open Russian Film Festival (Kinotavr 2006)
Birgit Beumers: Cannes 2006: The Russian Presence

Issue 13: July 2006

Natalia Lukinykh: Inspired by the Oscar, Hardened by the Marketplace. On the Everydays and Holidays of Russian Animation. (Suzdal Animation Festival)
Eugenie Zvonkine: The Tenth Forum for National Cinematographies of the CIS and the Baltic States (Kinoforum)
Aleksandr Deriabin: Judgment Day: Recreation and Stylization (On Ethics in Documentary Filmmaking and Other Matters)

Issue 12: April 2006

Bauyrzhan Nogerbek: "The Eurasia-2005 Film Festival: Ambitions and Realities"
Vladimir Padunov: Storing and Restoring History: Gosfil'mofond and the 10th Belye Stolby Archival Film Festival
Thomas Campbell: Five Theses About Timur Bekmambetov's Day Watch

Russian TV-Serials: AAASS Roundtable 2005: "Russian TV: Past Issues of Present Concern"

Birgit Beumers: "The Serialization of the War"
David MacFadyen: "The Significance of Brezhnev for Russian TV Drama Today"
Alexander Prokhorov: "Size Matters: The Ideological Functions of the Length of Soviet Feature Films and Television Mini-Series in the 1950s and 1960s"

Issue 11: January 2006

José Alaniz: Moscow Conceptualism and the ArtKomiks of Gosha Ostretsov
Thomas H. Campbell: The Bioaesthetics of Evgenii Iufit
Seth Graham: Iusup Razykov and Contemporary Uzbek Cinema

Issue 10: October 2005

Elena Stishova: There's No Point Arguing with the Marketplace: The Ninth KinoForum
Aleksandr Shpagin: Newly Sprouting Seedlings in the Rustling Field of Domestic Cinema (Kinotavr 2005)
Diliara Tasbulatova: Study, Study, Study: The Grand Prize of the 27th Moscow International Film Festival Went to Aleksei Uchitel''s Dreaming of Space

Issue 9: July 2005

Ian Christie: Iakov Protazanov: A Timely Case for Treatment
Konstantine Klioutchkine: "Fedor Mikhailovich Lucked Out with Vladimir Vladimirovich": The Idiot Television Series in the Context of Putin's Culture

Issue 8: April 2005

John MacKay: The "Spinning Top" Takes Another Turn: Vertov Today
Petre Petrov: The Freeze of Historicity in Thaw Cinema
Emma Widdis: Muratova's Clothes, Muratova's Textures, Muratova's Skin
David MacFadyen: Literature Has Left the Building: Russian Romance and Today 's TV Drama

Issue 7: January 2005

Special Feature: Dziga Vertov: John MacKay: Disorganized Noise: Enthusiasm and the Ear of the Collective
KinoShock 2004: Gul'nara Abikeyeva: KinoShock: A Panorama of National Cinemas

Issue 6: October 2004

"National Cinema": Pittsburgh Film Colloquium roundtable featuring:

Nancy Condee: Imperial Ectoplasm
Marcia Landy: Frames or Frame Ups of National Cinema
Adam Lowenstein: David Cronenberg and the 'Face' of National Authorship

Moscow International Film Festival 2004: Susan Larsen: At the Intersection of Art, Commerce, and National Pride

Issue 5: July 2004

Kinoforum 2004: Vladimir Padunov: Imperial Acorn -→ National Oaks: The Eighth KinoForum .
Kinotavr 2004: Victor Matizen: Masses and Classes: Kinotavr 2004 .

Issue 4: April 2004

Josephine Woll: Exorcising the Devil: Russian Cinema and Horror.

Issue 3: January 2004

Vladimir Padunov: Stars Above Almaty: Kazakh Cinema Between 1998 and 2003 .
Bauyrzhan Nogerbek: Demythologizing and Reconstructing National Space in the Kazakh "New Wave" .

Issue 1: July 2003

Nancy Condee and Vladimir Padunov: Subtropical Cinema: Kinotavr, Collective Heroes and Small Screens: The Fourteenth Annual Open Russian Film Festival (3-17 June 2003).
Vladimir Padunov: Moscow's Silver Anniversary: XXV Moscow International Film Festival (20-29 June 2003).

Articles are indexed in ABSEES and in the MLA Bibliography.