Black Zero
@blackzerodisc.bsky.social
Black Zero is a multimedia publisher celebrating the best of Canadian underground films from the 1960s to the present.
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.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and support.
September 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and support.
September 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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.
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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…
August 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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...
July 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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!
June 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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!
May 31, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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!
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.
April 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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.
Follow us as we continue to spotlight the artists who make Canadian cinema unforgettable.
April 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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.
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…
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…
April 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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…
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
April 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Keith Lock’s Everything Everywhere Again Alive. Available now on Blu-Ray Disc from Black Zero! #canadiancinema #canadianfilm #experimentalfilm #cinema #environmental #physicalmedia
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.”
February 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
February 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
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!
Field Trip can be found on our release of Richard Kerr's America films - Richard Kerr: Field Trips - available now in our online store!
January 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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!
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!
January 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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!
January 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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!
January 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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.
December 19, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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! 🎄🎅
December 17, 2024 at 9:07 PM
@willsloanesq.bsky.social on Home for Christmas! Buy it today at www.blackzero.ca! 🎄🎅
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.
December 12, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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…
December 11, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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!
December 9, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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.
December 5, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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..."
November 29, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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.
November 29, 2024 at 2:33 AM
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.