Black Zero is a multimedia publisher celebrating the best of Canadian underground films from the 1960s to the present.
Toronto, Ontario
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Black Zero - a label with a mission to keep the work alive - releases to be shared, studied, revisited! Canadian cinema, built from the margins. Check out our current catalogue offerings today - 62 films across 11 discs.
This week on Black Zero Notebook, an appreciation of Canadian experimental filmmaker @LarissaFanTO by @StephenBroomer. You can see Larissa's wonderful films on Vimeo! blackzero.ca/blogs/black-zer…
The latest Black Zero Notebook article is now up. This week, Stephen Broomer tackles Lipsett's Strange Codes notebook, which maps out his influences and ideas as he prepared the production. blackzero.ca/blogs/black-zer…
Our latest entry at the Black Zero Notebook: Stephen Broomer on Canadian filmmaker David Rimmer’s elusive West Coast Workprint.
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Check out our feature the Black Zero Notebook, a (now weekly) online publication exclusive to our website. Our latest, Kelly Egan: Language Lessons, is a spotlight on one of Canada's best collage filmmakers.
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Our latest post over at the Black Zero Notebook - a reprint of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill's 1974 interview with Cinematheque programmer Tony Reif, which provides a wonderful glimpse of the Vancouver experimental film community at a pivotal moment. blackzero.ca/blogs/black-zer…
Our new feature, the Black Zero Notebook, will feature weekly articles on the history of Canadian underground film, its distribution at home and abroad, and the works, artists, and communities that have defined it! Check it out: blackzero.ca/blogs/black-zer…
Today at the Black Zero blog, we offer John Hofsess's 1967 essay Film as Guerilla Warfare, which attempts to account some of the ideas behind his therapeutic cinema (evidenced in his film Palace of Pleasure).
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Pictured: R. Bruce Elder with all three hours of Illuminated Texts (1982) at its premiere. We've been working on an epic release of this film, among others, coming soon!
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✨COVER REVEAL!✨
I’m thrilled to share the cover of my next #picturebook LEO’S LUNAR NEW YEAR, illustrated by the wonderful Myo Yim. We can’t wait for you to meet Leo and his grumpy cat Dumpling!
Coming January 2027 from @TundraBooks. Pre-order available now.
Only a few hours left to celebrate #CanadaDay by learnin about some of the country's greatest experimental films! blackzero.ca
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I talked about @blackzerodisc films with the man behind the company himself! Stephen Broomer is a great guy to talk cinema with. youtube.com/shorts/5nxE5XFum…
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What I'm proudest of with Black Zero might be the artist interviews that almost every disc comes with - long-form interviews with filmmakers like R. Bruce Elder, Rick Hancox, Larry Kardish, Richard Kerr. That's how each disc serves as a masterclass in experimental filmmaking.
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Finally watched these two @blackzerodisc releases of Richard Kerr films and these are great, both the early political tone poems and the later more formally motivated studies. Highly recommend
Anything ordered from our store today will be mailed no later than tomorrow afternoon! Need a last-minute gift for the cinephile in your life? Consider Rick Hancox's Home for Christmas...! Available on blu-ray in a comprehensive, feature-packed collection.
Black Zero released three new discs in 2025, including this rediscovered gem of the 1960s New York underground movie circuit, Larry Kardish’s Slow Run! In a feature-packed limited edition. Get it while you can.
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Many thanks to Isaac for putting on this wonderful screening of our restorations of Josephine Massarella’s films in Phoenix last night!
