We have film screenings coming up at the Merrill Memorial Library, Congress Square Park, and at our studio on Cassidy Point. And more coming soon!

Portland Conservatory
of Music

In Portland’s West End
28 Neal Street
Portland, Maine 04102

International
Films

Wednesdays, 7pm
Kinonik Studio
121 Cassidy Point Dr.
Portland, Maine 04102

Portland Conservatory
of Music

In Portland’s West End
28 Neal Street
Portland, Maine 04102

Congress Square
Park

In Portland’s Arts District
Congress Street and High Street
Portland, Maine 04101

International
Films

Wednesdays, 7pm
Kinonik Studio
121 Cassidy Point Dr.
Portland, Maine 04102

Coming Up

THE DEVIL’S BALL / HÄXAN
on 10/9 at

PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE

THE KID BROTHER
on 10/13 at

The Kid Brother

LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ

ADAM’S RIB
on 10/16 at

COMEDIES OF ERROR:
SCREWBALL COMEDY

SHANGHAI EXPRESS
on 10/23 at

WOMEN WHO KILL:
EXCLUDED WOMEN

BURN WITCH BURN
on 10/30 at

PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on 10/31 at

Night of the Living Dead

PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE

DOUBLE INDEMNITY
on 11/6 at

WOMEN WHO KILL:
EXCLUDED WOMEN

FAUST
on 11/10 at

Faust

LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ

THE SEVENTH SEAL
on 11/13 at

PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE

BRINGING UP BABY
on 11/20 at

COMEDIES OF ERROR:
SCREWBALL COMEDY

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
on 11/27 at

CHAIN REACTION: FOUR CULTURES
ON COLD WAR ANXIETY

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT
on 12/4 at

COMEDIES OF ERROR:
SCREWBALL COMEDY

THE STUDENT PRINCE OF OLD HEIDELBERG
on 12/8 at

The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg

LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ

MILDRED
PIERCE
on 12/11 at

WOMEN WHO KILL:
EXCLUDED WOMEN

WAGES OF FEAR
on 12/18 at

CHAIN REACTION: FOUR CULTURES
ON COLD WAR ANXIETY

VAMPYR
on 12/26 at

PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE

Screenings

SUNSET BOULEVARD
on 9/25 at

Sunset Boulevard

WOMEN WHO KILL: EXCLUDED WOMEN

OUR MAN IN HAVANA
on 10/2 at

Our Man In Havana

CHAIN REACTION: FOUR CULTURES
ON COLD WAR ANXIETY

JULIET OF THE SPIRITS
on 9/18 at

PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE

THE CABINET OF DR CALIGARI
on 9/22 at

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ

FAIL SAFE
on 9/4 at

Fail Safe

CHAIN REACTION: FOUR CULTURES
ON COLD WAR ANXIETY

BORN YESTERDAY
on 9/11 at

Born Yesterday

COMEDIES OF ERROR:
SCREWBALL COMEDY

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
on 5/22 at 7PM at

TOP HAT
on 5/8 at 7PM at

DRUNKEN ANGEL
on 5/15 at 7PM

CITIZEN KANE
on 4/24 at 7PM at

SHADOW OF A DOUBT
on 5/1 at 7PM

THE SCARLET EMPRESS
on 4/10 at 7PM at

UGETSU
on 4/17 at 7PM

IKIRU
on 3/27 at 7PM at

SUSPICION
on 4/3 at 7PM

THE SOFT SKIN aka LA PEAU DOUCE
on 3/13 at 7PM at

ODD MAN OUT
on 3/20 at 7PM at

BEAT THE DEVIL on 3/15 at

SUNRISE on 3/22 at

MY MAN GODFREY on 3/29 at

SCARLET STREET on 4/4 at

METROPOLIS on 4/12 at

D.O.A. on 4/19 at

His Girl Friday on 4/26 at

The Southerner on 5/3 at

The Stranger on 5/10 at

Meet John Doe on 5/17 at

The Stranger on 5/10 at

Meet John Doe on 5/17 at

THIEF OF BAGDAD
On 5/28 at 8:30

SAFETY LAST!
On 6/25 at 8:30

TILLIES PUNCTURED ROMANCE
On 7/30 at 8:30

OUR HOSPITALITY
On 8/27 at 7:30

ALPHAVILLE on 9/5 at 7

Alphaville

THE 39 STEPS
on 9/12 at 7 

LA DOLCE VITA
on 9/19 at 7

THE CHAPLIN REVUE
on 9/24 at 6:30

THRONE OF BLOOD
on 9/26 at 7

MARC RIBOT: CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S THE KID on 9/30 at 8

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
on 10/3 at 7

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
on 10/10 at 7

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
on 10/17 at 7

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
on 10/24 at 7

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
on 10/29 at 6

RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11
on 10/31 at 7

KEY LARGO
on 11/7 at 7

CRISS CROSS
on 11/14 at 7

THE MAN BETWEEN
on 11/21 at 7

THE NAKED CITY
on 11/28 at 7

THE GREAT DICTATOR
on 12/5 at 7

ALL THE KING’S MEN
on 12/12 at 7

ORPHEUS
on 12/19 at 7

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
on 12/26 at 7

RASHOMON
on 1/3 at 7

ALL ABOUT EVE
on 1/10 at 7

RULES OF THE GAME
on 1/17 at 7

SABOTEUR
on 1/24 at 7

42ND STREET
on 1/31 at 7

NINOTCHKA
on 2/7 at 7

SOME LIKE IT HOT
on 2/14 at 7

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
on 2/21 at 7

THINGS TO COME
on 2/28 at 7PM at

ON THE TOWN
on 3/6 at 7PM at

About Us

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 500 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 is 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.

Our Mission

Kinonik is a 501c3 non-profit corporation formed in 2016. We have a large collection of 16mm films made from 1900 through 1970 that we conserve in a studio in Portland. We screen selections from our films using xenon 16mm film projectors to audience of all ages. We have partnered with St. Lawrence Arts, Space Gallery, Portland Museum, Yarmouth Historical Society, Maine Film Association, Mayo Street Arts, and Friends of Congress Square Park to show our films to audiences of all ages.

Our mission is to collect and preserve 16mm movies, present films from our archive, educate and entertain our community, and support the appreciation of film as an art form. Our programming is multi-generational, designed to introduce the digital generation to the analog experience through screening 16mm films in mechanical projectors. We welcome everyone from 6-year-olds to 90-year-olds at affordable screenings of rarely seen classic films in friendly venues. The focus of the collection is auteur-directed films and other films of artistic, social, and cultural significance from the early silents to the early 1970s, including features, shorts, documentaries, animation, and experimental/art films.

Key to the Kinonik mission is the preservation of the analog experience in this digital world. The experience of seeing a film on film, with an audience of fellow film lovers, all staring up at a projected black and white image on a big screen has been mostly lost in this world of streaming films on LED panels. This film experience at Kinonik is not just nostalgic; it is the way that these works of cinematic art were intended to be experienced.

We have shown films at venues including SPACE, St. Lawrence Arts, Congress Square Park, Alice Gauvin Gallery, the Yarmouth Historical Society, and the screening room at the Kinonik studio.  We have also loaned our 16mm films to the Cinéclub/Film Society de Montreal and to other cineaste organizations. We welcome collaborative relationships.

Our Board

  • James Cradock
  • Andy Graham, Acting Executive Director
  • Gregory Jamie
  • Skylar Thorne Kelly
  • Nicholas Loukes
  • David Nutty
  • Carolyn Swartz
  • Bob Wirtz
  • Katherine Worthing