With the cinemas upstairs (run by City Screen's Picturehouse chain of independent arthouses), the galleries are the parts you pass by first. So what's the difference? Downstairs in a gallery, you'll find Isaac Julien's specially-commissioned film Baltimore, which takes its cue from "blaxploitation" movies of the 1970s. Upstairs in a cinema, you get a programme including Alex Cox's Revengers Tragedy, which was shot on location in Liverpool but has a more general release nationwide. With an eye to the audiences, one cinema is equipped with state-of-the-art sound and widescreen 70mm projection - so they'll be showing classic epics such as David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Stanley Kubrick's 2001, which were shot in that format, as well as the latest special-effects movies.

Challenging you on the way into the big screens is another gallery, just off the bar. There at the moment is the weird and totally absorbing "VinylVideo" project. It's obsolete technology pressed into the service of art: blurry moving images, made by an assortment of artists, perversely obtained from analogue 12-inch records. Not your average cinema foyer fodder.