WED 27TH MAY
 KENNINGTON  BIOSCOPE ONLINE PRESENTS

 KBTV *live* , comes to with 3 films courtesy of@EYE_film Desmet Collection, including :
Lois Weber starring in & directing TWINS (1911)

one rare DW Griffith Biograph film FATE (1913). With Colin Sell @silentsweeney &@cyrusgab on piano!

Our physical home is The Cinema Museum, where the Kennington Bioscope was first seeded and nurtured. Due to COVID-19 and Government rules the Museum has temporarily close. Sadly there will be no Kennington Bioscope performance events at The Cinema Museum until they reopen, but we are working together to ensure that happens at the earliest opportunity.  We miss our Museum home and friends but ‘until we meet again’ we've taken the exciting step of launching online, so that you can still enjoy the Kennington Bioscope - available via the Bioscope YouTube channel.

In the meantime you can also keep up with news of The Cinema Museum at www.cinemamuseum.org.uk.  Pre COVID-19 they were fighting for the right to purchase their buildings and the fight goes on - you can sign the ‘save the cinema museum’ petition here and they have a fundraising page on JustGiving to help them raise the funds to cover their core costs during closure.

John Sweeney 

He has played for silent films since 1990 at venues including Riverside Studios Cinema, National Film Theatre, Nottingham Broadway and the Barbican Centre. He has also worked extensively in contemporary dance, composing music for choreographers Viola Farber, Sarah Fahie and Andreja Rauch. Sweeney also works as a pianist for Rambert Dance Company and En-Knap.^[

He can be heard regularly playing for silent film at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank in London.^[

Colin Sell

Is a pianist/MD/composer for theatre and radio drama, and regularly accompanies the likes of Barry Cryer in cabaret, as well as himself in his one-person show Clueless at the Keys. He has accompanied silent films in many parts of the UK. Colin is the much-maligned pianist on Radio 4’s I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue. He has a regular annual gig performing at the Old Bailey (Court no. 1) and recently accompanied a gouzhong player at Sadlers Wells.

Cyrus Gabrysch

 has been working in London for 20 years as an accompanist, and more recently as a film maker.  He has worked for many dance companies and schools around the world including New York City Ballet, the Merce Cunningham Institute, the Martha Graham School, The Limone Institute and the Royal Ballet School. He currently works for the English National Ballet.

Cyrus is also a resident accompanist at the BFI and accompanies silent film around the UK. He is a founder member of the Kennington Bioscope and the band "The Zizaniques".

cyrusgabrysch.com