Cabaret Voltaire: Kino
R.J. Preece: Kino was shot in Berlin, right?
Stephen Mallinder: Some of it was shot in Berlin, but a lot of it was filmed in Hamburg, along the Reeperbahn in Hamburg in the famous red light district. Kino is obviously German and “film” and “cinema” and we were always cinematic in our thinking. It worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.
R.J. Preece: Kino is “sensation” in some way, right?
Kino (1985). Music by Kirk/Mallinder and drums by Mark Tattersall.
Stephen Mallinder: I think probably underneath it all, film has its own rhythm and its own dynamic, and we were trying to capture the movement of film and cross-reference it with music.
R.J. Preece: Was this video influenced by your time in Japan? I spent a year there…
Stephen Mallinder: There certainly was an element of that. Going there in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.
Intro | In the 70s | Crackdown | Kino | Big Funk | Sensoria | Looking back now