Kino's Collective Thoughts

  Hello, reader, it's Jay again. This time talking about something a lot more personal and quite a bit more local - my short film, CHAIN !  The first thing I want to say is that if you haven't seen it already, I'd greatly appreciate the support and that this article is going to be a massive collection of spoilers right from the get-go! So, here is the link, just in case!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtixlNDl7Bg&list=PLWevLridBdghP7iSeOgA6cePvNsldHgaV With that being said, from here on out, I am going to be spoiling everything (that doesn't ruin the mystery!) Conception I'll start right at the very beginning, which has often proved to be the very best place to start (ironically not in CHAIN!) I actually found the seed that grew into this film around this time last year, just as the weather was getting cold and people start to walk the streets with their heads down and hands in their pockets. As someone who always has stories forming in their head, situations ...

Ever since the chilling day of the 25th May 2020, the death of George Floyd, the streets filled with the words “Black Lives Matter”. This phrase has started a global movement from the scorching sun of Sydney, Australia to the green hills of Bogotá, Colombia. Every contemporary culture can relate to the overuse of authority and racial inequality. However these chants have been running through the speakers of cinemas decades before the creation of the BLM movement in 2013. With groundbreaking films such as Kassovitz’s ‘La Haine’ (1995) and Spike Lee’s ‘Do the right thing’ (1989) with the aims to educate, reform and bring justice to victims of police brutality.  In 1993, Mathieu Kassovitz attended a riot in Paris, similar to the protests seen this year, on the police killing of Makome M'Bowole, a 17 student shot in the head in a police station. It was here he decided to create his film ‘La Haine’ which followed three characters around an estate after a riot. The film created a movemen...