Kino-Fot () was a Russian language magazine dedicated to cinema produced from 1922 to 1923 under the editorship of Aleksei Gan. A total of six issues of the magazine were produced, five in 1922 with a sixth in 1923. The contributors included Vladimir Mayakovsky, Dziga Vertov and Lev Kuleshov.
The magazine is credited for being an avant-garde influence for the creative flow the 1920s, bringing new abstract photomontage and typographic designs.
Issue 1, 25–31 August 1922
The first issue contained Vertov's statement "We: Variant of a Manifesto" which commenced with a distinction between "kinoks" and other approaches to the emergent cinematic industry:
- "We call ourselves kinoks – as opposed to "cinematographers", a herd of junkmen doing rather well peddling their rags.
- We see no connection between true kinochestvo and the cunning and calculation of the profiteers.
- We consider the psychological Russo-German film-drama – weighed down with apparitions and childhood memories – an absurdity."
Hyppolite Sokolov wrote those introductory lines : "Cinema - a new philosophy. Cinema's language, analytical or synthetic, is the new
esperanto of the futur. Cinema - a new science. It will replace newspapers, will help scientists and teachers. The straight line is everywhere : town, American architecture, etc. It is opposed to the curved line (nature). Our era is the one of geometric and mechanic beauty ... Alone on the screen stands the automated man, of the new industry, the man who walks in a taylorized fashion. We need H.G. Wells".
Issue 3, 19–25 September 1922
This issue included drawings by Varvara Stepanova, a drawing by Alexander Rodchenko of a proposed building for the All-Russian Congress of Soviets and an article by him about
Charlie Chaplin.
Issue 6, 8 January 1923
This issue included an article by Vertov, "Kino-Pravda" which related to a series of documentaries
Kino-Pravda the first of which had been released in June 1922.
See also
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List of avant-garde magazines
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