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A passion for cinema

Our conversations and cinematic essays capture our love of cinema.

Blog posts

Writing that explore the nature of cinema and what it means when we call something cinematic.

Video essays

Videos that explore the nature of cinema and what it means when we call something cinematic.

Reviews

Reviews of cinematic works, how they work, what we can learn from them, and more.

An array of resources

Our collection of blog posts, videos, reviews, and more cater to a diverse readership, ranging from academics to practicing moving image artists.

Our mission

  • Collaborate with fellow moving image artists and scholars.
  • Showcase books, articles, moving image works, and installations.
  • Celebrate the realm of “the cinematic”

Kino-Eye.com Newsletter

  • Thought-provoking articles.
  • Reviews that celebrate cinema.
  • Resources for both artists and scholars.

I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you the world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse’s mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising of bodies. This is I, the machine, manouvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.

Free from the boundaries of time and space, I coordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

Dziga Vertov

1923