Kino-Ikon – a journal for the sciences of the moving image and cinema – is published twice a year. The journal publishes original as well as translated papers representing the contemporary thinking about cinema. It creates space for a detailed reflection of the transformations and developments of the world and local audiovisual culture. The long-term aim of the journal is to cultivate the ability of critical evaluation of cinema and various other expressions of audiovisual culture at large. Kino-Ikon is published by the Association of the Slovak Film Clubs, since 1998 in collaboration with the Slovak Film Institute. Since 2003 a critical appendix called Frame created by the students of the Department of the Audiovisual Studies at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava is a part of the journal. In 2014 Kino-Ikon became a peer-reviewed journal.
Kino-Ikon – a journal for the sciences of the moving image and cinema – is published twice a year. The journal publishes original as well as translated papers representing the contemporary thinking about cinema. It creates space for a detailed reflection of the transformations and developments of the world and local audiovisual culture. The long-term aim of the journal is to cultivate the ability of critical evaluation of cinema and various other expressions of audiovisual culture at large. Kino-Ikon is published by the Association of the Slovak Film Clubs, since 1998 in collaboration with the Slovak Film Institute. Since 2003 a critical appendix called Frame created by the students of the Department of the Audiovisual Studies at the Film and TV Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava is a part of the journal. In 2014 Kino-Ikon became a peer-reviewed journal.
The journal was founded in 1996 by the pedagogues and students of the Film Science Department at the Film and TV Faculty. Since its origins it has been devoted to the stadium of cinema, it’s open to publish research of various kinds of moving images (such as television or new media), nevertheless. Since the Slovak Film Institute participated in the journal’s publishing, the work of the editors has become more professional. The inclusion of the Frame appendix in 2003 was supposed to support young Slovak film criticism, to allow young adepts to get some practical experience. Zuzana Mojžišová is the editor-in-chief of Frame.
In 2014 the journal became peer-reviewed. The articles published as a part of the issue’s main theme or as a part of the “stadium” section, mostly written by the Slovak (and Czech) authors are reviewed. The journal uses a double-blind peer review process.
Kino-Ikon is mostly oriented on the history of the Slovak cinema. The journal publishes papers which result from the cotemporary (individual or collective) research projects, voluminous reviews of contemporary developments in Slovak cinema, transcripts from various roundtables, masterclasses and discussions with filmmakers and connoisseurs of cinema. As a direct enhancement of this, the journal publishes editions of unique written and photographed archive material (such as documents about the cinema’s executives, industry correspondence, unrealized film stories and scripts and others).
The following regular sections form the journal:
studium – a peer-reviewed section; here are published original papers of important length dedicated to the Slovak cinema (case studies, specific film’s analysis, analysis of movements, authorial styles, historical eras, …),
issue’s theme – a peer-reviewed section; the editors or external authors give impulses for this section (editor or guest editor is responsible for it); the aim is to bring up to date the theoretical, historical or aesthetical knowledge on a given area of cinema (animation, for instance), or to remember an anniversary of an important personality, or to focus on the less researched phenomena (genres, …) and events of cinema and of arts/culture in general. The issue’s theme might be proposed by the scholars or even by events of cinema culture in Slovakia or the Czech republic (such as the most important festivals – IFF Karlovy Vary, IFDF Jihlava, Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště, …). The new films in the local distribution might give impulse for the issue’s theme, too, just as the local conferences, archival screenings and festivals or film studies seminaries taking place.
double touch – this section brings two different perspectives on the same subject (two authors writing about the same film from various vantage points, for instance),
profiles – more complex summaries of a life’s work of a selected filmmaker (be it local filmmaker or world-renowned),
beyond the margin – in this section a very short articles on a very particular subjects (details, images, words, sounds, scenes, moments…) are published. “It’s a section dedicated to a cinephiliac microscopy”,
interviews, film and literature reflections – essays about or reviews of films or literature on films,
history of virtual films, history of supporting characters in arts – these are irregular sections focused on “a more playful cultivation of the national cinema’s memory”, interdisciplinary and comparatively oriented (to stress the dialogical contacts between the cinema and other arts).
Since 2008 the journal collaborates extensively with the International Festival of Film Clubs Febiofest. The journal’s editors present focused thematic sections of films at the festival.
Since 2010 the journal is regularly financially supported by the Audiovisual found throughout it’s programme 3 dedicated to education, training, research and publishing in the field of audiovisual culture.