Hi all, I am beginning to program regional artists' films with my local microcinema Kinonik here in Portland, Maine. For now, I am prioritizing active Maine filmmakers who have work to show on film and can attend in person, but would love to connect with filmmakers in New England generally who include celluloid in some part of their practice, especially those outside of more major hubs. We do have a small budget to pay screening fees.
Please be in touch if you have work you’d like to share with us! Background Info: Kinonik <https://kinonik.org/> is a nonprofit microcinema dedicated to the communal experience of watching films projected on analog formats. They preserve and present essential 16mm and 35mm film with the aim of fostering dialogue, education, and resistance against cultural homogenization. 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, in the spirit and tradition of cinema clubs of the past. Kinonik is currently doing three public screenings a week from their enormous archive of 16mm films, and they tend to sell out most nights (50+ seats). They were recently featured in Maine Public <https://www.mainepublic.org/arts-and-culture/2026-01-08/portland-micro-cinem> which garnered national attention. The co-founders Skylar Kelly and Andy Graham presented at the Association of Moving Image Archivists this winter on “Programming From Our Collections in Response to These Times” where they discussed their strategy of programming as responsive social commentary. I have been invited to expand their programming with a focus on artist/experimental film. We want to offer a noncompetitive non-institutional space for noncommercial filmmakers, and to invigorate an understanding of film as an active medium in a local context. I am a filmmaker based in Portland committed to growing collective resources and dialogue in support of artist filmmaking practices. I am inspired especially by my time with the Baltic Analog Lab in Riga, Latvia. I currently collaborate with artist (and Binghamton/SFAI alum) Caroline Savage at the Bakery Photo Collective and Kinonik to offer filmmaking workshops and screenings. Looking forward to hearing from you! Warmly, jenelle
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