Iskusstvo Kino
Russian film magazine
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Iskusstvo Kino (Russian: Искусство кино, lit. 'Cinema Art') was a film magazine published in Moscow, Russia. It was one of the earliest magazines in Europe to specialize in film theory and review, alongside British magazine Sight & Sound and French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma.[1] It was a print publication between 1931 and 2023.
- Monthly (1931-1941)
- Irregular (1945-1947)
- Bi-monthly (1947-1951)
- Monthly (1952-2023)
History and profile
The magazine was established in 1931.[1][2] Its original title was Proletarskoe kino, which was used for one year between 1931 and 1932.[2] The magazine was renamed as Sovetskoe kino in 1933 and was published under this title until 1935.[2] Its headquarters was in Moscow.[3][4]
The magazine was published on a monthly basis from its start in 1931 to 1941.[5] Following its temporary closure during World War II, it was relaunched in 1945 and appeared irregularly between 1945 and 1947.[2][5] After that it came out bi-monthly from 1947 to 1951.[5] From 1952 it was published monthly again.[3][5]
During the Soviet period, Iskusstvo Kino was the official magazine for cinema industry in the country.[6] The magazine included editorials by leading Communist Party officials.[7] At the same time, it argued that films should meet the demands by public.[8]
From 1963 the magazine, together with Soviet Screen, began to be published by the newly founded state-funded company Goskino. This was responsible for the coordination of film production and distribution in the Soviet Union.[9]
The magazine offers articles on film theory and film reviews.[10] American scholar Vladimir Padunov contributed to the eightieth anniversary issue of the magazine.[11] In the 1960s Valerii Golovskoi was the editor.[12]
During the 1980s Iskusstvo Kino had a print run of 50,000 copies, while the magazine sold 2,000–3,000 copies in the 1990s.[13] In 2004 the magazine sold 5,000 copies.[3]
Daniil Dondurey was among magazine's editors.[14] He was succeeded by Anton Dolin in 2017. He raised a crowdfunding campaign for publication of the magazine and collected 3 million rubles.
In 2020, Cinema Foundation of Russia refused to sponsor the magazine, a decision Dolin considered a retaliation for his critical reviews of the Foundation-sponsored films. In 2021, Iskusstvo Kino was crowdfunded again, raising 5 mln rubles. In 2022, Dolin was proclaimed a foreign agent by Russian officials for political dissent and fled the country.
The magazine ceased publication in May 2023 and shifted to online distribution.[15]
The magazine was archived by East View Information Services, Inc. based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.[10]
The editors
- Ivan Pyryev (1946)
- Nikolai Lebedev (1947–1949)
- Dmitri Eryomin (1949–1951)
- Vitaly Zhdan (1951–1956)
- Lyudmila Pogozheva (1956–1969)
- Yevgeny Surkov (1969–1982)[16]
- Armen Medvedev (1982–1984)
- Yuri Cherepanov (1984–1986)
- Konstantin Shcherbakov (1987–1992)
- Daniil Dondurey (1993–2017)[14]
- Anton Dolin (2017–2022)[17]
- Stanislav Dedinsky (2022)[17]
- Nikita Kartsev (2023–present)[17]
