Kino-zhurnal A.R.K. [i.e. The Magazine of the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography] is an extremely rare Soviet film magazine, published in Moscow by the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography in mid-1920s. Only eleven issues of this monthly magazine were published under this title (#1-12 for 1925 and #1-2, 1926).
Kino-zhurnal A.R.K. provided theoretical base for the changes in Soviet cinema in 1920s with articles on the film montage and other new methods of movie editing and directing. The famous contributors to the magazine included Eisenstein, Malevich, Room, Ardov and Pudovkin. The magazine contains two articles by the artist Kazimir Malevich who describes his views towards cinema as an art form. The constructivist design of the magazine covers was created by Piotr Galadzhiev (1900-1971), a well-known Soviet artist, an illustrator for a number of early Soviet film publications (Kino-Glaz, Kinopechat, etc.)
The beginning of 1920s in the Soviet Russia is known for fresh creative cinematographic forces. Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Trauberg, Ermler, Kozintsev and other artists of the first generation of Soviet directors made their debut. Kino-zhurnal A.R.K. specifically reflects that dynamic era. The content covers the Soviet, European, American and Asian film news, film technology, international cinema industry exhibitions like the 1925 Berlin Film Exhibition. The US film industry was booming at that time, and many materials in the magazine are dedicated to American actors and new pictures out of Hollywood. For example, the issue 11/12 contains a review of Chaplin's latest film - The Gold Rush. Besides foreign news the magazine published data on sociology of a Soviet viewer and film statistics.
The magazine ceased publishing in 1926 when its editor Nikolay Lebedev wrote an article blaming Maxim Gorky for disliking cinema as a genre. Although Lebedev later apologized, he was nevertheless fired soon after and the magazine was transformed into a different journal, Kino-front under the editor Konstantin Yukov.