kinoki was founded in 1992 within the Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus as its homebase, as a project to create political cinema by showing movies and videos rarely seen in TV or regular motion picture theatres through setting series of subject and organizing open-air-shows. Additionally kinoki runs media-science research and film production. kinoki is named after the revolutionary cinema movement of Dziga Vertov in 1922, who said: “We are dazzling the stars with our projectors”. kinoki is a “mobile production amoeboid” and “provides film-theoretical outputs in the flight line of political practice“.

Roughly speaking kinoki now has developed in two factions: One part of kinoki is the two-weekly so-called micro-cinema, which takes place at the cultural centre of “7stern” – in the 7th district of Vienna. Every two weeks people are invited to the ritual of sharing evenings by watching the well selected programme of movies and -not less important- afterwards talking about what has been seen. To give some examples of the programme: at last, in December 2003, you could see: Mr. Freedom or the mysteries of the organism – two anti-authoritarian questions to the political imaginary of the cold war ( Dusan Makavejev J/D 1968-1971 ) - the 104th presentation of micro-cinema. You have films about the anti-globalisation-movement, the “Showdown in Seattle: Five days that shocked the WTO” (Independent Media Center and Big Noise Production) as well as documentations about the Austrian culture of resistance against dictatorships next to real cinema highlights like movies from Chris Marker.

The other, second part of kinoki is kinoki lumal. A independent travelling, mobile cinema and video production for self-determination in Chiapas/Mexico and Guatemala, developed in 1999. “To let become the portable movie-screen a nightly window to the world in the secluded valleys of Chiapas“ is the purpose and task of kinoki lumal. “Together with the Maya Tzeltal farmers wives kinoki is working on the audio-visual self-determination of the native and local people and is taking trouble and pains to multiply their call for dignity and justice through that media“. Kinoki lumal means communitarian cinema: local people who show interest in the media are learning technical know-how of video-projection and search for a theme of common interest, create programmes, mediate it to the people in the little villages and plan the routes of the mobile Lichtspiel theatre. The social impact of this travelling cinema are enormous: people gather without respect to political, ideological, religious or gender specific differences in this war stamped region. Cinema helps to bring people together at meetings where they inform theirselves or simply entertain or are amused while watching documentaries, other films or animations. Because of great interest kinoki lumal arranged workshops to create pictures and audios and in the course of time there were produced several reportages about the life in the visited villages. Local people became autonomous creators and players of their own history and experience with self-control over the pictures of their own, against cultural exploitation and political spoon feeding. To give two examples : the video “Kapel” (Coffee) from the year 2000 is documenting the rebellious acting and working of the coffee-cooperative “Ernesto Che Guevara” against the neo-liberal world market and the military pressure through the Mexican army – or the last production “Rilaj Mam: world view and resistance in Guatemala” (2002): a documentary about an annual festival and ritual act of the Maya-Tzutuhil people, about the God Rilaj Mam, a iridescent figure, male and female, about the people, artists, priests and ritual cooking women, who are celebrating and representing this cult.

“Revolution will not be televised”

kinoki

www.kinoki.at -association for audio-visual self-determination-

kinoki was founded in 1992 within the Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus as its homebase, as a project to create political cinema by showing movies and videos rarely seen in TV or regular motion picture theatres through setting series of subject and organizing open-air-shows. Additionally kinoki runs media-science research and film production. kinoki is named after the revolutionary cinema movement of Dziga Vertov in 1922, who said: “We are dazzling the stars with our projectors”. kinoki is a “mobile production amoeboid” and “provides film-theoretical outputs in the flight line of political practice“.

Roughly speaking kinoki now has developed in two factions: One part of kinoki is the two-weekly so-called micro-cinema, which takes place at the cultural centre of “7stern” – in the 7th district of Vienna. Every two weeks people are invited to the ritual of sharing evenings by watching the well selected programme of movies and -not less important- afterwards talking about what has been seen. To give some examples of the programme: at last, in December 2003, you could see: Mr. Freedom or the mysteries of the organism – two anti-authoritarian questions to the political imaginary of the cold war ( Dusan Makavejev J/D 1968-1971 ) - the 104th presentation of micro-cinema. You have films about the anti-globalisation-movement, the “Showdown in Seattle: Five days that shocked the WTO” (Independent Media Center and Big Noise Production) as well as documentations about the Austrian culture of resistance against dictatorships next to real cinema highlights like movies from Chris Marker.

The other, second part of kinoki is kinoki lumal. A independent travelling, mobile cinema and video production for self-determination in Chiapas/Mexico and Guatemala, developed in 1999. “To let become the portable movie-screen a nightly window to the world in the secluded valleys of Chiapas“ is the purpose and task of kinoki lumal. “Together with the Maya Tzeltal farmers wives kinoki is working on the audio-visual self-determination of the native and local people and is taking trouble and pains to multiply their call for dignity and justice through that media“. Kinoki lumal means communitarian cinema: local people who show interest in the media are learning technical know-how of video-projection and search for a theme of common interest, create programmes, mediate it to the people in the little villages and plan the routes of the mobile Lichtspiel theatre. The social impact of this travelling cinema are enormous: people gather without respect to political, ideological, religious or gender specific differences in this war stamped region. Cinema helps to bring people together at meetings where they inform theirselves or simply entertain or are amused while watching documentaries, other films or animations. Because of great interest kinoki lumal arranged workshops to create pictures and audios and in the course of time there were produced several reportages about the life in the visited villages. Local people became autonomous creators and players of their own history and experience with self-control over the pictures of their own, against cultural exploitation and political spoon feeding. To give two examples : the video “Kapel” (Coffee) from the year 2000 is documenting the rebellious acting and working of the coffee-cooperative “Ernesto Che Guevara” against the neo-liberal world market and the military pressure through the Mexican army – or the last production “Rilaj Mam: world view and resistance in Guatemala” (2002): a documentary about an annual festival and ritual act of the Maya-Tzutuhil people, about the God Rilaj Mam, a iridescent figure, male and female, about the people, artists, priests and ritual cooking women, who are celebrating and representing this cult.

“Revolution will not be televised”

kinoki

www.kinoki.at -association for audio-visual self-determination-

kinoki was founded in 1992 within the Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus as its homebase, as a project to create political cinema by showing movies and videos rarely seen in TV or regular motion picture theatres through setting series of subject and organizing open-air-shows. Additionally kinoki runs media-science research and film production. kinoki is named after the revolutionary cinema movement of Dziga Vertov in 1922, who said: “We are dazzling the stars with our projectors”. kinoki is a “mobile production amoeboid” and “provides film-theoretical outputs in the flight line of political practice“.

Roughly speaking kinoki now has developed in two factions: One part of kinoki is the two-weekly so-called micro-cinema, which takes place at the cultural centre of “7stern” – in the 7th district of Vienna. Every two weeks people are invited to the ritual of sharing evenings by watching the well selected programme of movies and -not less important- afterwards talking about what has been seen. To give some examples of the programme: at last, in December 2003, you could see: Mr. Freedom or the mysteries of the organism – two anti-authoritarian questions to the political imaginary of the cold war ( Dusan Makavejev J/D 1968-1971 ) - the 104th presentation of micro-cinema. You have films about the anti-globalisation-movement, the “Showdown in Seattle: Five days that shocked the WTO” (Independent Media Center and Big Noise Production) as well as documentations about the Austrian culture of resistance against dictatorships next to real cinema highlights like movies from Chris Marker.

The other, second part of kinoki is kinoki lumal. A independent travelling, mobile cinema and video production for self-determination in Chiapas/Mexico and Guatemala, developed in 1999. “To let become the portable movie-screen a nightly window to the world in the secluded valleys of Chiapas“ is the purpose and task of kinoki lumal. “Together with the Maya Tzeltal farmers wives kinoki is working on the audio-visual self-determination of the native and local people and is taking trouble and pains to multiply their call for dignity and justice through that media“. Kinoki lumal means communitarian cinema: local people who show interest in the media are learning technical know-how of video-projection and search for a theme of common interest, create programmes, mediate it to the people in the little villages and plan the routes of the mobile Lichtspiel theatre. The social impact of this travelling cinema are enormous: people gather without respect to political, ideological, religious or gender specific differences in this war stamped region. Cinema helps to bring people together at meetings where they inform theirselves or simply entertain or are amused while watching documentaries, other films or animations. Because of great interest kinoki lumal arranged workshops to create pictures and audios and in the course of time there were produced several reportages about the life in the visited villages. Local people became autonomous creators and players of their own history and experience with self-control over the pictures of their own, against cultural exploitation and political spoon feeding. To give two examples : the video “Kapel” (Coffee) from the year 2000 is documenting the rebellious acting and working of the coffee-cooperative “Ernesto Che Guevara” against the neo-liberal world market and the military pressure through the Mexican army – or the last production “Rilaj Mam: world view and resistance in Guatemala” (2002): a documentary about an annual festival and ritual act of the Maya-Tzutuhil people, about the God Rilaj Mam, a iridescent figure, male and female, about the people, artists, priests and ritual cooking women, who are celebrating and representing this cult.

“Revolution will not be televised”