"In 1915 the Russian poet Sergei Gorodetsky went as far as to propose a new term for 'cinema', 'zhiznopis' ('life-writing'), coined by analogy with 'zhivopis' ('live-writing'), a standard Russian word for 'painting'"

Yuri Tsivian, "Two 'stylists' of the Teens: Franz Hofer and Yevgenii Bauer"