posted by Laura

September 1, 2010 in Announcements

If you know Kino, you’ll know that we like nothing more than a good night out with a healthy portion of short film lovin’.  We also very much like petrol stations.  Which is why we’re totally pumped about the Cineroleum.  Check. It. Out.

For a few weeks only, a disused petrol station on the Clerkenwell Road is being given a regal makeover.  The Cineroleum team have transformed the venue into a veritable picture palace with a programme to make your eighties perm quiver with excitement.  And if classic features in a gasoline-glamorous setting weren’t enough for you, the wonderful folk over at Guerilla Cinema are serving a whole buffet of short film appetisers before each showing.

This Saturday 4th September, some of the best shorts to have graced our Kino London screen will be up in lights before Cineroleum’s B-movie night.  Sadly (as you’ll know if you read the debrief from Kino #20 and clicked on the tickets link) tickets are now sold out.  Sorry folks.  But all is not lost, you can still get your shoulder pads out and strut your sequins for the final week of films.

Tickets go on sale at 4pm TOMORROW.

You can find the Cineroleum at:
The disused petrol station
100 Clerkenwell Road
London EC1M 4RJ

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posted by Jamie

September 1, 2010 in Announcements

Our next open-mic screening happens on Thursday 30th September, at Vibe Live, Brick Lane. Oh, and it’ll be our 21st birthday! 21 whole screenings since we kicked-off in January 2009

As always, there are no themes and no pre-selection of the films we show. We ask only that films be under 6 minutes, on dvd, and include the Kino London logo (just for our screening). Oh, and we also stipulate that the filmmaker should be there on the night, of course, to stand up and say “Hi, I made this!”

If you feel like you can’t meet those rules – you perhaps can’t put the logo on in time – but want to screen anyway, let us know. We’re completely open to a bit of arm-twisting, because we don’t want to be turning away people who want to show their short.

If you’d like to screen at Kino #21 drop Laura a line at screen@kinolondon.com She’ll need your name, the title and duration of your film and some contact details. The Kino logos are available to download here.

And, if you want to chat about Kino before deciding to screen – as people often do – Laura’s the person who can help you out there too.

GUEST FILMMAKERS – TBA SHORTLY

Our guests for August, Ben and Chris Blaine, will be a hard act to follow, but we’re sure we can do it. Watch this space for more details of September’s guest.

KINO #21

THURSDAY 30th SEPTEMBER
Vibe Live, Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street Station
Doors at 7:30pm, films at 8pm.
£4 entry, free for screening filmmakers

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posted by Jamie

August 30, 2010 in Film of the Week


Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers, by Ola Simonsson and Johannes Stärne Nilsson

As we’ve mentioned already, August has been pretty much a holiday month for us here on kinolondon.com. Holiday in the continental sense, whereby everything pretty much shuts down for the month, save the odd sign to say “we’re still here and still thinking about you, but we’re just taking it easy for a few weeks”. Now we hit September we’re determined to be back blogging with a bang. With that in mind…

I first saw this film back in 2005, at a Future Shorts night in Manchester. Given how fiendishly effective Future Shorts are at keeping their chosen films off the web I was very pleasantly surprised to see this up on Youtube. I remember thinking at the time how bloody Swedish it felt, without any real idea of what I was talking (thinking) about. Watching it again I still can’t quite shake that feeling. There’s nothing Bergmanesque about it, but perhaps it’s the straight faces and total earnestness with which the actors are doing something so completely ridiculous (and totally brilliant).

Pay close attention to how the music in each room nicely echoes the natural household sounds you’d expect to hear there – white goods and appliances in the kitchen, mechanical and pill-prolonged sex in the bedroom, and routine washing and scrubbing in the bathroom. Also consider if you’d be happy for these criminal hipsters to pick the lock to your house and make music in your various well-appointed rooms. They don’t clear up after themselves, but thankfully they do seem pretty non-judgemental. I think they’d have a whale of a time with my combi-oven.

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posted by Laura

August 29, 2010 in Announcements

So Kino hit the big 2-0 on Thursday.  Despite the rain (oh Britain, how I love thee), Vibe Bar was once more transformed into a little cinematic haven. Our twentieth screening saw the weird, the wonderful and everything in between, up on our screen.


What did we see?

The Condemned - Chloe and Megan
The Head v. The Heart – Lisa Thompson
Borderlands – Jamie Fisher
The Sheep - Stephen Minty
S.T. Demented – Steve Glass
Once upon a time on Earth – Ian Hothersall
James Gang’s Funk #49 by Marc – Pierre Landriau
Coming Home – Billy Walsh
This time I think I’ll fly, or let me show you with my hands - Michael Glass




And then, like the salt to our popcorn, short-film-wizards Ben & Chris Blaine joined us to talk pandas, share previously unseen work for their upcoming feature film, This Anarchist and spill the beans about why they’re currently favouring thrillers over comedy.

Two lucky screeners were awarded challenge films for breaking the rules.  Tut tut.
Lisa Thompson will make a film about the worst film ever made and Steve Glass will take inspiration from “The Cucumber Diaries”. We look forward to the results!

So, that’s a wrap for this month.  Well, almost.  Thanks to our friends over at the Cineroleum, you can catch a selection of some of the best films to have graced our screen on Saturday 4th September as part of B-movie night.  Roll up, roll up, get your tickets here.

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The Wizard of Speed and Time – Mike Jittlov (1983-88)

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Since Laura posted her Kieslowski film last Monday, it’s all been a bit quiet on the western front. I’ll tell you what though, we have excuses.  As usual, Jamie’s been revelling – first in Barcelona, then at a festival in Holland, Laura’s been ill (flu-like symptoms), and I’ve been working my fingers to the bone. [...]

Posted on Aug, 23, 2010 by Andrew under Film of the Week | No Comments »

Urząd – Krzysztof Kieślowski (1966)

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I’m not ashamed to say that I spent a large part of last week doggedly watching Dekalog - Kieślowski’s ten-part series based on the ten commandments.  And these ten hours (plus toilet breaks) of my life I gave to these films willingly. Yes, the films are dated and yes, they do feel a tiny bit ‘soap-opera’ [...]

Posted on Aug, 16, 2010 by Laura under Film of the Week | No Comments »

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