culture that has given the world the artistic avant-garde represented by Kazimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Vadym Meller, Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Oleksandr Bogomazov, David and Vladimir Burliuk brothers, and Vasyl Yermilov all of whom have changed the paradigm of world art. Many more names of the Ukrainian modernism founders, whose legacy was purposefully corrupted for over half a century, remained on the margins of national memory. By creating this collection we hope to revive the memories of at least part of them.
Publication of the first volume of Ukrainian Re-Vision is timed to the 90th anniversary of All-Ukrainian Photo-Cinema Administration (VUFKU), under the brand of which such masterpieces as Zvenyhora, Two Days, Man with a Movie Camera, In Spring, Arsenal and Earth were created during 1922-1930. VUFKU was a cinematographic state monopoly that united the entire film industry in Ukraine, including film production, film distribution, film education, and book publication. It was one of the most successful film producers in Europe. Exporting movies to France, Czech Republic, Germany, Great Britain, USA, and Japan VUFKU became the second largest after the USA supplier of film production to Germany, which at that time was the leader of the European film industry. VUFKU logo became the logo of the Ukrainian Re-Vision collection.
We plan to continue the restoration of silent Ukrainian film classics within the framework of the renewing of forgotten, unknown, and prohibited Ukrainian film heritage. In the next two years the second and the third volumes of Ukrainian Re-Vision collection will be published, including the films that were considered lost. The collection in general will consist of five volumes of silent film classics, which will bring together thirty different genre films, representing around 12% of general number of Ukrainian silent films.
I sincerely believe that the publication of Ukrainian Re-Vision collection will be an important step towards a full-fledged Ukrainian national film archive.
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