We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

It was an important period for us, because even though we weren't a "punk band", and what became a model for a punk band, we were able to be dragged along by the spirit of that time.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.

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.

We were sort of coming from an angle where we wanted to break rules.

I think we saw our reaction coming from Dada, but at the same time, it formed into punk, which was very much a reaction to the social conditions. That was part of it for us as well, and that's why we were kind of swept along with punk.

We've always been journalists - and have seen ourselves in that way. But we sort of recontextualized it through music.