Next on @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's Northern Light: WAR AT HOME: MAINSTREET SOLDIER AS ANTI-EPIC: "Broomer situates Leonard Yakir’s celebrated short film in the context of CanLit’s disillusioned anti-heroes, and the tensions of performance in cinema verité." Jan 1 @ spectacularoptical.com

Never sleep on a Derek Jenkins screening. He and Eugenia Zuroski have made my favourite film of 2025!

THE TRAGEDY OF THE VIKING The new video essay in @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's monthly series NORTHERN LIGHT focused on Canadian classics, hits and misfits. Now live at spectacularoptical.com

NEW episode of @stephenbroomer.bsky.social 's video essay series NORTHERN LIGHT is up! This one exploring the tragic tale of George Melford and Lewis Varick Frissell’s The Viking (1931) spectacularoptical.com/video-essays...

One of the things I'm proudest of is this restoration and its presentation on this disc: a video essay, a speculative reconstruction of a lost film, an audio commentary, and a bonus 'sequel' film. I'm so glad I've been able to share this genuinely original and imaginative film.

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...

TRUTH & SOUL: A ROBERT DOWNEY SR. READER now available. 23 essays, 332 pages, full colour! spectacularoptical.com/product/trut...

A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' (2000) draws on imminent cultural anxieties as a young woman accepts a challenge from an unknown Master of Games. Read the latest October Horror piece from @stephenbroomer.bsky.social!

The Way Things Go is a work of absolute machined precision. Check out our video essay about it. Below is an excerpt!

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.

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.

If you are in the U.S. and want some Black Zero discs, order them by Wednesday 5PM! I am not at all sure how long we will be pausing but it might be for a while.

Hard at work on my newest series, Northern Light, on Canadian cinema. It’ll be my most traditional and straightforward series yet - but by these standards, that means, get ready for near-death experiences, docudramas about nude cults, and Lacanian interpretations of hoser/loser masterpieces.

ESSENTIAL VIEWING: Filmmaker and @blackzerodisc.bsky.social founder @stephenbroomer.bsky.social just posted a very timely and disturbing video essay for Canada Day on Rob Fothergill's 1970 film COUNTDOWN CANADA: youtu.be/57oCoeb9mYw

Out this June: "Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett", by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social . Pub. Wilfrid Laurier University Press expcinema.org/site/en/book...

A video essay on the films and videos of contemporary Canadian experimental media artist Christine Lucy Latimer.

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

Join us next Thursday, April 3rd at 8pm for AD HOC #73. Lulu Faustine with filmmaker @stephenbroomer.bsky.social. Free and open to all!

Tonight’s Stan Brakhage screening is a sellout! The people love Stan Brakhage!!!

Stan Brakhage for the people! A program tonight at Ad Hoc at Innis College, on 16mm - Eyes and Unconscious London Strata!

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 youtu.be/LrA9if2cthA

I made this video essay with Bart Testa for the Richard Kerr: Field Trips blu-ray disc available now from Black Zero. Bart also wrote the liner notes for an upcoming disc of ours. More info coming soon.

Such an honour to share some of my recent work with Ad Hoc. Huge thanks to Stephen Broomer for continuing to program great experimental films in Toronto.

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For those interested in reading a little more about Canadian experimental film we’ll publish a brief extra conversation on Thursday about @stephenbroomer.bsky.social’s two books as writer and co-editor on the subject of Canadian underground cinema #podcast #experimentalfilm #filmartist #filmwriting

This winter at the Cinema Studies Institute at Innis College - Ad Hoc presents six screenings! Three screenings of classic experimental films in 16mm and three screenings of digital-born works by local artists!

"This collection is an early front-runner for the best physical media release of 2025." This one means a lot because @severinfilms.bsky.social doesn't get enough film establishment love for our work (imo) and I've been waiting for something I worked on to make it into this column!

I was very honoured to get a chance to talk with Daniel Adams of H2EEF about Josephine Massarella and her work…

Cinema on duty!

New episode out now! Richard Kerr is a giant in Canadian experimental film. This episode takes a broad look at Richard's career, with a particular focus on the "American" trilogy, which has been released on Blu-Ray by Stephen Broomer at Black Zero. #experimentalfilm #podcast #filmartist

I made Spirits in Season (16mm, 12 mins.) at Lily Dale Assembly, the Spiritualist commune in upstate New York, in fall 2011. Here I am pictured next to the Inspiration Stump with my Bolex. The film features an original soundtrack by the great Nate Wooley.

On Jane Conger Belson's Odds & Ends and the hipster archetype.

Beautiful Dreamers, our video essay about Richard Elfman’s Forbidden Zone, was first published in text form in Bright Lights Film Journal.

My blu-ray publishing company, Black Zero, was written up in today's Globe and Mail!

Tondal’s Vision (2018)

2024 year-in-review: huge thanks to all the producers and home video companies that involved me in their releases this year!

On taboo, anachronism, the reconstruction of evanescent cinema, and the bountiful well of lust...just in time for the holidays.

Untitled, 1960, by the great calligraphic abstractionist Mark Tobey. Eight years earlier, Robert Gardner made this wonderful film about Tobey: youtu.be/QjggfwjKp40

An Xmas quartet...

On Marie Menken's Lights, "a Christmas nocturne: it is akin to those carols and fables that promise charity, peace and the milk of human kindness flowing anonymous under cover of darkness, kindling in the hearth of this one prophetic night." www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6_...

Hand-colored 1897 Edison film called CRISSIE SHERIDAN.

Sure, I remember Reagan getting shot, and the insane United States invasion of Grenada, but I would argue this had a greater impact on my life than any other news story.

An excerpt from Screams from the Sky: Taking the Scenic Route with The Psychotronic Man, now available at @artandtrash.bsky.social!

Now available from Black Zero! Our latest release is Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas, a landmark work of personal documentary filmmaking, in a special limited edition with three bonus films, an hour long interview and a new video essay.

On Gunvor Nelson's Take Off - "...even amidst all of this revolutionary thought, Take Off ends the striptease with a natural conclusion, revealing it for what it proudly is, an absurd comic pageant."

Join us at AD HOC at Innis College, room 222, this Wednesday night, for the launch of Black Zero disc no. 8 - Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas. Rick and his collaborators will be in attendance!

A video essay on the films and videos of contemporary Canadian experimental media artist Christine Lucy Latimer.

November is over, long live #noirvember!