Kino Xenix (Zurich)
Adress: Kanzleistrasse 52 / 8004 Zürich / Switzerland
Tel: +41 43 322 13 83
Email: beat.schneider (at) xenix.ch
Contact: René Moser & Beat Schneider (Programming Directors)
www.xenix.ch
1 screen, 111 seats (in Summertime: 1 Open-Air screen with 820 seats)
Tech: 16mm, 35mm, Digi-Beta, Beta SP, directly from HD
History: The cinema Xenix was found in June 1980 by a group of young film enthusiastics and activists from youth movement fighting for more cultural space for young people in the city of Zurich. Since then the cinema has grown steadily and has shown films by at the time little known filmmakers (Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Jim Jarmusch, Wong Kar-wai), has organised integral retrospectives (Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Joris Ivens, Chris Marker, Mike Leigh), thematical programs. Today the cinema Xenix is an important cultural institution in Switzerland. As non-commercial cinema, with a substitute of the City of Zurich, a meeting/melting-point with our Xenix Bar, we continue to present thematical programs, retrospectives and to focus on lively small film nations. We present thematical programs with a filmic (formal, filmhistorical) subject (as Slow Motion, the new-invention of the Western Genres, the Genre of Motor Bycicle or Radiofilms etc.). We present the works of known filmmakers, actors viewed from the perspective of today (as recently Jim Jarmusch, Philip Seymour Hofman) or unknown filmmakers (Jörg Kalt, Lutz Dammbeck). Regularly we held small festivals (New Asian Cinema, Cine Latino).
Organisational structure: Private Association
Editorial Line: Each program is introduced through an extended text written by a film critic or expert. All the films are described in the context of their showings.
Regularity: Every Day.
Other stuff: Introductions, Discussions, maybe 1 to 2 each month.
Publicity: Programme Booklet (around 44 pages), posters
Audience: members of our cinema, cinephiles, main group 25-50 years old
Funding: tickets, substitution by city government, sponsoring, income of the bar