Black Zero

Looking for a gift for the cinephile in your life? Consider our Blu-ray Disc of Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas, available now. All orders placed by Thursday will be sent out by Friday!

Our first release was Palace of Pleasure (1967), the only existing film by Canadian underground filmmaker John Hofsess. It is presented as a therapeutic treatment, to heal the soul through the eyes... Available now in our online store, in a special limited edition!

NEW on Spectacular Optical: NORTHERN LIGHT - a monthly video essay series on the classics, hits and misfits of Canadian cinema hosted by @blackzerodisc.bsky.social 's Stephen Broomer. First episode "The Invasion Will Be Televised" now online at spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

At Black Zero, we rely on Canada Post for all of our shipping needs. As of September 25, 2025, Canada Post has gone on strike. As a result, we must pause all shipments until their operations resume.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and support.

Check out this review of our recent screening in Santa Fe!

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Next Thursday, September 11, at Innis Town Hall, as part of the ongoing Ad Hoc programming - our new restoration of Larry Kardish's Slow Run! With the filmmaker in person. Don't miss this hidden gem of the New York Underground. Discs will be for sale at the launch.

An important update for our U.S. customers…

The cameraless animation film Tender (2021), available on our new release of projects by media artist Christine Lucy Latimer. "The transparent, holographic portions from Canadian dollar bills are contact printed on to 16mm film." Filmmaking can be like a license to print money...

Available as of today in the Black Zero store!

A few of our wonderful filmmakers! Rick Hancox, Keith Lock, Josephine Massarella, Arthur Lipsett - self-portraits from some of the films you can buy today at blackzero.ca!

Now showing at the Art & Trash patreon and on our YT and Vimeo channels - Freedom to the Filmmaker: an interview with Madi Piller about her work with Pix Film, a studio dedicated to the production and exhibition of innovative media art!

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They watched. They wrote. They reminded us why we do this. Read what Black Zero customers are saying on Letterboxd and follow our new account there! Lists to follow.

From classic experimental shorts to long-lost underground features, every Black Zero release is crafted with care: restored, contextualized, and brought into conversation with the present.

Follow us as we continue to spotlight the artists who make Canadian cinema unforgettable.

Black Zero is a home for visionary Canadian experimental filmmakers.

We work closely with artists to preserve, present, and celebrate cinema that defies convention—films that speak to the radical, personal, and poetic histories of Canada’s moving image culture…

Keith Lock’s Everything Everywhere Again Alive. Available now on Blu-Ray Disc from Black Zero! #canadiancinema #canadianfilm #experimentalfilm #cinema #environmental #physicalmedia

On Thursday night at Ad Hoc, I presented four documentaries on art by Jim Davis. You can watch the whole programme, intro and films, at @artandtrash.bsky.social’s Patreon and YouTube channels. The Dynamic Arts: Documentaries by Jim Davis
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Arthur Lipsett’s Strange Codes is the legendary found-footage filmmaker’s first and only independent film. Dense with enigmatic gestures and private allusions, it operates “at the midway points between the primitive, ritualized world and the world of logic and science.”

Our disc Richard Kerr: Field Trips includes, among its bonus features, this video essay by the great Canadian film scholar Bart Testa. Invitation to the Voyage (29 mins) is a comprehensive discussion of Kerr's American films. Watch an excerpt below! Available now from blackzero.ca

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H2EEF Spotlight: Podcast Episode · How to Enjoy Experimental Film · 2025-01-30 · 49m

On the latest episode of How To Enjoy Experimental Film, Stephen Broomer talks about restoring and publishing the films of Josephine Massarella, for our fifth release, available now!

Check out this podcast interview - Daniel Adams in conversation with Black Zero filmmaker Richard Kerr!

Donate to HELP SUPPORT THE RECOVERY OF S.F. FILMMAKER CRAIG BALDWIN!!, organized by Friends of Craig Baldwin CRAIG BALDWIN, the genius found footage filmmaker, legendary … Friends of Craig Baldwin needs your support for HELP SUPPORT THE RECOVERY OF S.F. FILMMAKER CRAIG BALDWIN!!

Filmmaker, archivist, curator + founder of SF's Other Cinema Craig Baldwin (TRIBULATION 99, SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM etc) needs your help! gofund.me/8d358a8c

Today in the Globe and Mail, Eric Veillette writes about Black Zero, the value of home media in keeping culture vital and shining a light on rare experiences - and reminds us what an honour it is to get to do this work!

After two decades, Richard Kerr returned to the theme of American desolation with Field Trip...

Field Trip can be found on our release of Richard Kerr's America films - Richard Kerr: Field Trips - available now in our online store!

Thanks James!

Today in the Globe and Mail, Eric Veillette writes about Black Zero, the value of home media in keeping culture vital and shining a light on rare experiences - and reminds us what an honour it is to get to do this work!

Palace of Pleasure (John Hofsess, 1967). A long-neglected classic of Canadian experimental cinema, a triumph of erotic art, a film about which Gene Youngblood once wrote, “See it and you’ll see a window on the future..." Available now in our online shop!

We've been able to issue eight discs in our first two years! Thanks to everyone who has supported the label. We still have lots of copies available! Order today from our online store to support our continued efforts to preserve, contextualize and publish experimental films!