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Film of the Week: An Untitled Film, by David Gladwell (1964)

  Please watch the film before reading and if possible, dim your lights and don your headphones.   You wait… and you wait… and you wait… you can feel a sense of foreboding as everything moves slowly toward something, but to what? The wings flap chaotically, the struggle and unease is palpable. The shock on [...]

KINO IS 50! // JOIN US, WEDS 8th MAY@ THE HORSE HOSPITAL

Believe it or not, we are approaching our 50th screening. That’s 50 unprogrammed, un-curated, unexpected screenings! Not quite sure how we managed to go from one screening to the next with nothing (that’s nothing) programmed, and still end up with a full house each night, but we did! Long may it continue. So, join us [...]

KINO #49 – The Shorts That Came In From The Cold

One of the many things we love about Kino is that, sometimes, our little monthly film night turns out to be… how do I put this? Just a tiny bit odd. And so it was that, those brave enough to fight the elements, made their way through the Arctic winds and enjoyed stories of corporate [...]

The Sony Production Awards : definitely worth a shot…

Every man and his dog is running a filmmaking competition nowadays (not to mention a short film night…) so it’s wise to approach every new ‘opportunity’ with a little caution. It can be pretty hard to distinguish exploitation (and cheap advert production) from genuine support for filmmakers and reward for filmmaking talent. So it’s nice [...]

Kino’s new ident – by filmmaker Alex Widdowson

If you were at Kino #48 in February you’d have seen our new ident, created over the last few months by Alex Widdowson. Whilst being a cool little short, the ident has always been an important part of each Kino screening as it tries to encompass the collaborative, open nature of what we do at [...]