Cafe Kino is a not-for-profit, and completely unfunded, arts space.

We are committed to supporting DIY arts and grassroots activism, and aim to work with promoters, groups, organisations, and individuals who share the qualities, outlooks and values that are important to us.

The events side of Cafe Kino (as well as other areas of the co-op) rely heavily on the voluntary time and effort given by our staff, who work hard to bring you a programme that we are very proud of.

ACCESSIBILITY

We are proud to be an all-ages venue. There are no age restrictions on any events at Cafe Kino unless otherwise stated.

The main entrance to the cafe is step-free and on the ground floor. However, most events take place in the basement area. Unfortunately, due to building restrictions, this space is only accessible by stairs.

WED 28 APR 11

CINEKINOSIS present
Calamari Union
(Richard Lefebvre / 84min / 2008 / USA)

+ live Q&A via skype with Richard Lefebvre

7.00pm - 9.30pm
free admission



Cafe Kino is, once again, very proud to have teamed up with acclaimed film-maker, Juan Gabriel Gutiérrez, to bring you another short series of screenings from some of the leading experimental and artist film-makers in the world.


Calamari Union is Richard Lefebvre's remake of a Aki Kaurismäki's 1985 film, in which seventeen men named Frank walk across Seattle in hopes of finding a better life, and most of them die on the way.

"Over the last several months, Lefebvre has been shooting a self-fi nanced remake of Calamari Union, Kaurismäki’s 1985 cult fi lm about a bunch of aging Helsinki rockers who all mysteriously share the name "Frank." Lefebvre has recruited a volunteer motley crew of Northwest musicians for various roles, including A-Holes guitarist Otis P. Otis, Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, Himsa guitarist Sammi Curr, celebrity street urchin Slats, promoter/Beltholes’ drummer Kwab Copeland, Caustic Resin front man Brett Netson, Spits leader Sean Spits, and Makers’ mastermind Mike Maker. Thanks to the simplicity of the Finnish script, the translation to a local canvas was nearly seamless."
– Hannah Levin, Seattle Weekly

"Richard Lefebvre’s long awaited re-make of Aki Kaurismaki’s Calamari Union, an ultra-hip absurdist comedy that brought Kaurismäki’s trademark blend of deadpan humor, idiosyncratic irony, mannered minimalism and compelling humanism to the fore."
– Northwest Film Forum

www.facebook.com/pages/Calamari-Union/22787081739
View the trailer: www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1064081645258


Cinekinosis is an occational series of collaborations between Cafe Kino and Juan Gabriel Guitiérrez, which aims to bring you the leading lights of understated and patiently beautiful avant-garde film and video from around the world, plus live Q&A with the film-makers and other special guests.

Juan Gabriel Gutiérrez is a Colombian-born film-maker and musician, now based in Bristol, who’s recent film, Erw Dinmael, saw him hand-picked by Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Signs of Life etc) to attend his prestigious Rogue Film School.