Kixi

Official mascot

Origin Story

Kixi Katzenkino is the lost cat of pioneering German animation director Lotte Reiniger. He was her hidden co-director in the 1920s, giving her silhouette animations the darkness they needed.

As a mischievous cat, Kixi had an accident with his multiplane camera. It fell on his head and reset his personality.

Decades passed before he found a pioneering animation group to share his love and purrs with. When asked what the studio would be called, Kixi himself named it after his own name, Studio Kixta.

Official History

Kixta is a new term, synonymous with fast movement and related to the term “kino”, which characterizes the reproduction of 24 fps animation.

In search of a mascot, a cat was chosen thanks to the taste of Jaiovi, Bruno and Erandi, joking with MicheCine about an idea for a cinema bar in Monterrey, one night in May 2023 at BiblioTEC.

Jaiovi approved the mascot because of the many stray cats around the first exhibition space: Casa Naranjos Monterrey.

The name Kixi is the graphic letters of Kixta with two eyes (i) and a mouth (x).

Katzenkino is German for "cat cinema".

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