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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]