After a devastating nuclear war, survivors in Australia await radioactive fallout that's drifting toward them. As their days count down, personal relationships—between military officers, scientists, and civilians—are tested by grief and inevitable loss.
Roger Thornhill, an advertising executive mistaken for a government agent, is dragged into a cross-country adventure by spies who frame him for murder. Chased through cornfields, aboard trains, and ultimately onto Mount Rushmore, Thornhill teams up with Eve Kendall to try to clear his name.
In a post-war milieu, a white gangster forces an African-American doctor to treat him after a crime, leading to escalating tension in a racially divided society. When other characters clash and violence erupts, the moral character of each is revealed in unexpected ways.
Two wounded criminals, one dying, find refuge in a remote tidal island's castle owned by a neurotic Englishman and his young wife. Polanski mixes absurdity, violence, and psychological unease in this dark, isolated black comedy.
Two unemployed, out-of-luck actors in London decide to escape their dreary routines with a drunken countryside holiday. What follows is a darkly comedic collision of high expectations with harsh reality—shabby lodgings, eccentric locals and plenty of self-doubt.
Travis Bickle, a disillusioned Vietnam War veteran working nights as a cab driver in a decaying New York City, becomes increasingly disconnected from society. Haunted by insomnia and disgusted by what he sees—corruption, misogyny, and loneliness—he spirals into obsession as he dreams of "cleaning up the streets."
A group of scientists on an expedition in the Amazon stumble upon a prehistoric fossil that connects land creatures with underwater life. As they investigate further, the Gill-man—a mysterious amphibious humanoid—feels threatened and begins stalking them both in water and on land. When one scientist's love interest is drawn to the Creature, the tension between curiosity, horror, and moral ambiguity intensifies against the backdrop of primal fear and the unknown.
Kinonik is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to enlighten and entertain audiences of all ages through projected screenings of celluloid classic films. Our current archive consists of more than 2,000 16mm films.
A century into the film industry, digital offers myriad options for viewing media that the pioneers of the film industry surely never envisioned. While the benefits of accessibility can't be argued – something is missing.
Films have been created to give audiences the shared experience of temporary escape from the mundane into a world of heightened emotions and suspense that give them license to laugh, cry, gasp, chortle, and even shriek together.
The streaming experience is essentially solitary. The theater experience unfolds with a community of many. The more solitary our world gets the lonelier our world gets and the less we experience common experiences.
This is the magic of movies; it's the difference in nuance between sprocketed frames of real images speeding past the bright bulb of a projector than the digitized experience of pixels on a flat screen.
We're committed to preserving the film experience through the real-deal – projected screenings of must-see silent and sound classics.
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.
Committed to accessibility and community-building, Kinonik maintains fair pricing, proactively encourages diversity among our audience, and collaborates with artists, scholars and organizations. We approach our screenings both as entertainment and acts of celebration. We offer an alternative to the isolating forces of the mainstream by cultivating a joyful space where people can gather, discuss, and engage with the art of film through the analog experience.
Kinonik is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit, and donations are tax-deductible.