VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration) existed for less than nine years (1922-1930), but it managed to release over 140 fiction films, several hundreds of non-fiction films and newsreels, dozens of animations, gain fame of “Ukrainian Hollywood,” and take under its control all aspects of the cinematic process – filmmaking, distribution, film press, propaganda, and education. From over 140 full-length fiction films made by VUFKU, about 60 films are considered lost. A lot of the surviving films have come down to us incomplete (without one or more parts).

The website VUFKU. Lost&Found is the first online collection of Dovzhenko-Centre’s media library and is perhaps the only online resource providing comprehensive information on VUFKU.

The mission of the VUFKU. Lost&Found project is to search and return to Ukraine the lost films of the 1920s. Traces of some of the lost films of that time can be found in international archives. Meanwhile, we are collecting archive materials about the lost films, restoring their contents, learning the context of their release.

These searches and analysis, restoration of films and their return to the cultural circulation require financial support. Donating to our fundraising campaign, which will start in October 2019, you will be able to contribute to the restoration of Ukrainian cinema.

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Anthology of Ukrainian Film Critics of the 1920s. Volume 1. Film / Analysis

The anthology of Ukrainian film critics of the 1920s is a new book series by Dovzhenko Center, which explores and combines the most interesting, original and influential critical articles of the 1920s about cinema.

Volume 1. Cinema / Analysis

The first volume is devoted to the beginnings of Ukrainian cinema theory. The cinema in Ukraine gained an institutional and economic foundation only after the creation of the All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Management (VUFKU) in 1922. With the onset of Ukrainianization in 1923, humanitarian criticism gained a formidable form, and after the foundation of the Kino magazine, the first Ukrainian-language specialized cinematographic publication in 1925, the discussion of cinema became no longer a matter of affluent singles, but a systemic phenomenon.

At that time, a Ukrainian cinema theoretic school was formed, which managed to identify some interesting development vectors that are worth finding today.

Anthology compilers Stanislav Menzelevskyi and Oleksandr Teliuk. Author of the introduction: Stanislav Menzelevskyi.

The volume includes texts by leading cultural figures of the 1920-th: Mykola Lyadov, Kazimir Malevich, Valeryan Polishchuk, Mikhail Kaufman and others.

Book (Ukrainian), 176 p.,

 Soft cover, 2019

Cost: 120 uah

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