Kinonik
Collection Type: Collector
Phone Number: 207.650.5535
Website: https://kinonik.org/
Contact Email: andy@kinonik.org
Collection Policy: Kinonik is a nonprofit microcinema dedicated to the communal experience of watching films projected on analog formats. We preserve and present 16mm and 35mm film as a living medium with the aim of fostering dialogue, education, and resistance against cultural homogenization. In an era of increasing social isolation and algorithmic control, Kinonik serves as a space for collective meaning-making where cinema is not a commodity but a shared encounter with history, aesthetics, and radical imagination. Our programming emphasizes overlooked, suppressed, and subversive voices by placing them in proximity to famed classics. To this end we continuously seek to expand our film collection— embracing digital formats only as a means of access to exceptional works that are unavailable to us on film. We are fascinated by the craft of projection as an art form and strive for excellence in presentation regardless of medium.
922 films in this collection.