VUFKU. Lost & Found

A catalog of the Dovzhenko Centre’s research project VUFKU. Lost & Found, bringing together unique archival materials, illustrations and documents from the 1920s.

The history of VUFKU (All-Ukrainian Photo Cinema Administration) remains one of the most successful modernization projects in Ukrainian culture. This book aims not only to bring visibility to this largely forgotten phenomenon, but also to explore different ways of working with what has been lost and rediscovered. Specifically for this edition, six prominent writers — Oleksandr Irvanets, Tetiana Malyarchuk, Oleksii Nikitin, Anton Sanchenko, Natalka Sniadanko and Iryna Tsilyk — created literary texts based on the plots of lost films from the 1920s, preserved in the form of so-called librettos or extended synopses.