Celebration
KinoSaito 4-Year Anniversary
$25 | Free for Members | RSVP required
13 Sept. 2025 | 3-7pm
Happy birthday to us! KinoSaito is turning 4, and to celebrate we have an evening full of events to support our current exhibition The Unknown and Its Poetics curated by Adrián S. Bará. Be sure to buy your tickets in advance. Members can RSVP for Free.
Food and drinks included.
Artists in Residence
Open Studios
$25 | KinoSaito Anniversary Celebration Ticket Included
Free for Members | RSVP required
13 Sept. 2025 | 3-7pm
Join us for open studios with our Artists in Residence: Fawn Krieger and Larkin Grimm.
Peek into their studios and chat with them about their practices.
Food and drinks included.
Peor Aún | Photo by Alicia Reyes
Music Performance
Edgar Cobián | PEOR AÚN
13 Sept. 2025 | 6-7pm
$25 | Anniversary Celebration Ticket Included
Free for Members* | RSVP Required
A performative act that employs sound, music, spoken word, and text to create fragmented narratives, based on seemingly arbitrary and disconnected elements that explore the contradictions of the human condition. With Peor Aún, Edgar Cobián explores both the conceptual and aesthetic possibilities of absurdity and uncertainty. Furthermore, he conceives the body as a political territory that poses resistance through its potentials and expressive manifestations.
This performance is a part of KinoSaito Anniversary Celebration. The event starts at 3pm.
2025 Fall Film Series
Viridiana
Directed by Luis Buñuel
Free | RSVP Required
19 Sept. 2025 | 6pm
Viridiana (1961)
The story follows the tumultuous life of a young novice, the beautiful Viridiana, on the verge of taking her final vows as a nun. Before doing so, she is persuaded by her Mother Superior to visit her uncle Don Jaime, who has long been her benefactor - a recluse with a decaying mansion and estate.
This film series is being presented as part of our current exhibition, The Unknown and Its Poetics, curated by Adrián S. Bará. Special thanks to our sponsor, Let it Shine, for supporting this series of films.
Music Performance
Lin Esser
19 Oct. 2025 | 3pm
$10 | RSVP Required
A long-time fixture of New York’s SOHO visual arts scene, Lin Esser currently enjoys exhibitions of his work in some of the area’s most prestigious galleries. While known for his dark and often whimsical three dimensional works, collectors and enthusiasts of Esser’s work may not know that Lin has a parallel career as musician and composer.
Esser is also no stranger to film and theatre and will be participating in the upcoming ‘Modfest’ 2026 at Vassar University as an invited guest artist and collaborating performer. This event features Hudson West’s ‘Rescoring Richter’ series, an ongoing project directed by film maker and documentarian Dave Davidson.
Over the past five years, KinoSaito has hosted several performances of which Esser has played a major role, most recently as cellist and contributing composer in Between Worlds, a Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland multi medium exhibition event earlier this year. Now, Lin once again reaches out to KinoSaito audiences, as cellist and composer.
2025 Fall Film Series
Caballerango
A film by Juan Pablo González
Free | RSVP Required
24 Oct. 2025 | 6pm
Caballerango (2018)
In a small Mexican village in the state of Jalisco, deteriorating economic and social conditions have led to a wave of suicides among its young people. In Caballerango, the incredible new documentary from filmmaker Juan Pablo González, conversations around town return to one subject in particular: the recent suicide of a young horse wrangler named Nando.
A quietly devastating documentary, Caballerango is a portrait of how a rural Mexican town continues life as traditions vanish and new realities are born out of tragedy.
This film series is being presented as part of our current exhibition, The Unknown and Its Poetics, curated by Adrián S. Bará. Special thanks to our sponsor, Let it Shine, for supporting this series of films.