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
FAUST
on 11/17 at 
LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
on 11/27 at 
CHAIN REACTION: FOUR CULTURES
ON COLD WAR ANXIETY
Screenings
DOUBLE INDEMNITY
on 11/6 at
WOMEN WHO KILL:
EXCLUDED WOMEN
THE SEVENTH SEAL
on 11/13 at
PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE
BURN WITCH BURN
on 10/30 at
PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on 10/31 at 
PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE
ADAM’S RIB
on 10/16 at
COMEDIES OF ERROR:
SCREWBALL COMEDY
SHANGHAI EXPRESS
on 10/23 at
WOMEN WHO KILL:
EXCLUDED WOMEN
THE DEVIL’S BALL / HÄXAN
on 10/9 at
PROTO-FOLK HORROR:
FEAR OF CHANGE
THE KID BROTHER
on 10/13 at
LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ
SUNSET BOULEVARD
on 9/25 at
WOMEN WHO KILL: EXCLUDED WOMEN
OUR MAN IN HAVANA
on 10/2 at
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
LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT
BY CAROLYN SWARTZ
FAIL SAFE
on 9/4 at
CHAIN REACTION: FOUR CULTURES
ON COLD WAR ANXIETY
BORN YESTERDAY
on 9/11 at
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
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.
