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Film of the Week
Kino’s Open-Mic Short Film Night // #38 // Thurs 1st March // @ Vibe Live
Kino’s famous open-mic short film night returns to Vibe Live on Thursday 1st March. For those not familiar with the Kino thing, we don’t watch anything we screen in advance of the night, so the programme is as much a surprise to us as it is to you! Why? Because we just want filmmakers to [...]
Kino Recommends // Star Wars Episode 1 // February @ BFI IMAX // Win with Kino!
Ewan Mcgregor fights a man with a red face. As small-scale as our operation might be here at Kino, never let it be said that we don’t like big things too. Love it or loath it, Star Wars is back (again), and this time in 3D. I actually thought that it was in 3D already. [...]
Kino Recommends // Raj Kapoor Season at BFI // February 1 – 29
Raj Kapoor’s 1951 film Awaara (The Tramp’) Throughout February, BFI Southbank is celebrating the work of Indian director, actor and producer, Raj Kapoor. Also known as The Show-Man, Kapoor directed his first film at the age of 24 – at the time, the youngest directorial debut – having already been acting in major films since [...]
Film of the Week :: The Birth of Medusa by Nathaniel Whitcomb (2012)
In last week’s Film of the Week, we saw a stop-motion animation, at the centre of which was a blank page continuously lacking any drawings, despite the peripheral gestures of creativity. This week sees an inversion of that; a page upon which a story unfolds through half-definable video and gorgeously drawn titles. Note: If the [...]