Black Zero

08/10/2025

We remain on hiatus in terms of shipments while the Canada Post strike is ongoing. We stand in solidarity with this country's postal workers!

You can still buy our discs in Toronto and Paris at Bay Street Video and Re:voir respectively, and if you're coming out to any Ad Hoc screenings and are looking to buy some discs, let us know!

Our most recent event was at Innis Town Hall, where Black Zero's Stephen Broomer launched his new book, Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett, on the great Canadian collage filmmaker. If you weren't able to join us for it, you can watch the introduction here.

Introductions by Jim Shedden and Stephen BroomerSecret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett is available now from Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

27/09/2025

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. Orders placed at our online store will not be sent out until the strike is resolved.

Please keep this in mind if you place an order during this period. For customers in Toronto, our discs will be available at the Ad Hoc screening series, and we are happy to arrange curbside pickup: reach out to us at [email protected]. Limited quantities of our discs will also be available through our retail partners Bay Street Video (Toronto) and Re:Voir (Paris).

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

22/09/2025

Longtime MoMA film curator Larry Kardish on the apartment he shot Slow Run in, which would later be used by David Rimmer to shoot his 1971 film Real Italian Pizza. You can see the full 35-minute interview on our recent disc of Slow Run, available now in our online store.

25/08/2025

An important update for our American customers…

As you may know, the US government has made the decision to remove the de minimis exemption, which allows orders under $800 to enter the US free of duties, starting August 29th.

Any postal orders of discs and books that ship after this date will have additional charges when they arrive on your doorstep, regardless of order value or country of origin.

Have a Black Zero release you’re eyeing up?

Make sure you place your order before our deadline of this Wednesday, August 27th at 5pm EST!

We’ll be temporarily pausing US shipping on our site after this time while we work to find a solution that gets your orders to you without the risk of surprise fees upon delivery.

We’ll continue to monitor the situation and will keep you updated as things change!

01/07/2025

Crisis Collision Resolve, a collection of the short films of Richard Kerr spanning 1991 to 2017, is available now in our online store!

Through the course of the 1980s, Canadian artist-filmmaker Richard Kerr had gradually moved towards an ‘accelerated cinema,’ an imagistic cinema of movement,...

01/07/2025

Crisis Collision Resolve, a collection of Richard Kerr's short films spanning 1991 to 2017, is available now in our online store!

Through the course of the 1980s, Canadian artist-filmmaker Richard Kerr had gradually moved towards an ‘accelerated cinema,’ an imagistic cinema of movement,...

21/05/2025

This is "Freedom to the Filmmaker: Madi Piller and Pix Film" by Black Zero on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

26/04/2025

The Latin palindrome, “in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni,” cuts into the heart of R. Bruce Elder's Crack, Brutal Grief - at night we go down into the gyre and are consumed by fire. In the video essay on the disc, I described this lyric as "a declaration of the collective march into misery that is conducted in the dark night of the Internet." This is a harrowing collage, a harrowing of the hell that is the Internet - such as it was, such as it would become. In that same video essay, I offer the argument that this is a mondo film - the most personal of mondo films, full of that familiar mixture of real terror and dramatic artifice (from proto-FailArmy clips to scenes from Class of Nuke 'Em High and Doppelganger). Do you love Faces of Death and Mondo Cane, but you're looking for something that will make your heart ache a little more, or that will challenge your eyes with its abstractions, like an optical illusion puzzle? Give this film a shot.

A common response to this disc among our customers has been that they cannot recommend the experience because of how hard it goes, how confrontational and traumatic and despairing it is, and yet, many have said that it has given them an unforgettable experience. Like John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure, it is a psychotherapeutic experience - the exorcism that comes in a confrontation with grief. You may not be healed by it - but ye shall be changed.

Buy it today at www.blackzero.ca.

02/04/2025

Keith Lock’s Everything Everywhere Again Alive. Available now on Blu-Ray Disc from Black Zero!

15/02/2025

Our disc Richard Kerr: Field Trips includes the great Canadian film scholar Bart Testa's first video essay! Made in collaboration with Stephen Broomer, Invitation to the Voyage (29mins) is a study in Kerr's American films. Here's a sample!

06/02/2025

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, and get the full thing with Black Zero's release of Richard Kerr: Field Trips, available now!

06/02/2025

Extra episode out now! As well as being a filmmaker, teacher, publisher of great Canadian experimental films, producer of video essays and numerous other talents, Stephen Broomer is a prolific writer and editor. Here, we discuss two of his major book publications (one as author and one as co-editor) with a third due to be published soon. These books are both available from .

The first of these books is Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque, () which he co-edited with Clint Enns ()and which collates a host of essays and supplementary material about Bourque’s films. Louise has appeared previously on this show and the book was an invaluable resource for this episode, as well as a great starting point for any viewers interested to learn about her work.
Buy this title here: https://www.blackzero.ca/products/imprints-the-films-of-louise-bourque

The other title authored by Broomer is Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film, which charts the development of Canada’s distinctive experimental film cultures including the work of artists like Jack Chambers, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland.
Buy this title here: https://www.blackzero.ca/products/codes-for-north-foundations-of-the-canadian-avant-garde-film