It's 2021, and one of the most respected and prolific directors of our time, Mr. Steven Soderbergh (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Ocean's 11, Black Bag) delivers a paranoid thriller made within and about the constraints of the early COVID-19 pandemic.
By design it lands straight-to-streaming, a reasonable strategy given that most of the world is in lockdown and cinemas sit empty, but a sense of strange injustice lingers around work by one of modern cinema's architects never seeing the the big screen.
For the second instalment of her season The (Fe)male Loneliness Epidemic, guest programmer Bethany Winters provides you with a rare chance to see Kimi (2021) played loud and large with an audience.
Zoe Kravitz (The Batman) stars as the tech-savvy, and cripplingly agoraphobic Angela who overhears what she believes to be a violent crime while on the job monitoring recordings by the titular Siri-like home assistant Kimi.
When her concerns are met with further red flags from her shady employers, she's forced out of the sanctuary of her apartment to try and find answers before she becomes a target.
Written by David Koepp (Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Panic Room) and scored by Cliff Martinez (Drive, Spring Breakers), Kimi is the rare film made in reaction to the early days of COVID that's worth coming back to.
Find us downstairs at Dalston Superstore if you want to know the truth.
So, you're listening to everything?
Subtitles will be displayed throughout the film.
Seating is a mixture of benches, backed chairs, bar stools, and floor space, and is first come, first served.