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! sfreporter.com/arts/oh-cana...

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! t.co/gxv1HlpnzI

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.

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 youtu.be/LrA9if2cthA

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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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!

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!

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!

Our disc of Home for Christmas includes Notes from Home: Getting Personal in Rick Hancox's Home for Christmas, a new video essay by @stephenbroomer.bsky.social about the film and the legacy of personal filmmaking. The full video essay is also available to patrons of @artandtrash.bsky.social.

@willsloanesq.bsky.social on Home for Christmas! Buy it today at www.blackzero.ca! 🎄🎅

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.

Thanks to everyone who came out to tonight’s launch! Our disc of Home for Christmas will be in stock tomorrow at Bay Street Video in Toronto, and will be available from our online store when the postal strike is resolved.

Our latest release, Home for Christmas, is a personal journey through a traditional Canadian Christmas. It follows filmmaker Rick Hancox as he travels from Toronto to his family home in PEI, meeting fellow travellers along the way and looking out the train window at a vast and changing landscape…

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!

Our upcoming release of Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas includes Rick’s House Movie (1972), a deeply moving, candid film about the breakdown of his relationship with Barbara Holland.

Our upcoming release of Rick Hancox's Home for Christmas will also include one of the great Canadian underground films, Wild Sync (1973)! As per Pudovkin, "One must never show on the screen a man and reproduce his words exactly synchronized with the movements of his lips..."

Green Dreams, our collection of the complete films of Josephine Massarella, is one of our proudest achievements to date. Josie’s eight films are complemented by thorough documentation of her career, including her student films and an archival interview with her.

Tonight at TMU Image Arts, room 307 - a screening of films made at the Toronto alternative film centre/venue The Funnel (1977-1989), presented by students in the graduate program in Film Preservation under the supervision of Black Zero’s @stephenbroomer.bsky.social. Free to the public!

There's an auto-created bot account for Severin Films that sadly many people (including me) followed instead of the official account! Follow the REAL Severin Films at @severinfilms.bsky.social - let's knock that fake account out of the algorithm!

More information about the work of Richard Kerr via @blackzerodisc.bsky.social www.blackzero.ca/products/fie...

Art & Trash premiered in February 2021 with this episode, on the Canadian ecofeminist experimental filmmaker Josephine Massarella. I have since restored and published her films on blu-ray disc over at @blackzerodisc.bsky.social!

Coming soon to Black Zero: Rick Hancox’s Home for Christmas!

Launched in 2023, Black Zero is a boutique home video label specializing in context-rich releases of Canadian underground films. You can read more about our mission, and browse our catalogue, here: www.blackzero.ca