August 2026
The Little Free Cinema
Chris Kennedy
Tape Film, 2007, 16mm, 5 minutes
Made as an experiment in hand-processing, the film cycles through five different film stocks and a variety of processing methods. The result created dimensional havoc in the images. The concept of inside and outside is troubled, and the act of enclosure creates a screen on which to project the filmmaker’s own image.The Little Free Cinema
Chris Kennedy
Tape Film, 2007, 16mm, 5 minutes
Chris Kennedy (b. 1977 Maryland) is an independent filmmaker, film programmer and writer based in Toronto. He is the Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. His short experimental films have screened at over two hundred film festivals worldwide. His film “Watching the Detectives” won the Ken Burns Award for the Best of the Festival at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2018. He has programmed the work of others in Belgium, Egypt, Germany, the US and Canada. He holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where Tape Film was made. His work as an artist and programmer operates in dialogue with the history of film as art, exploring the medium’s materiality in a contemporary context. www.theworldviewed.com