Black Zero

Black Zero BLACK ZERO is a multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian underground filmmaking. We are named for the second sequence in John Hofsess’s Palace of Pleasure.

BLACK ZERO is a multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present. What does Black Zero mean to us? It is the solid black frame that marks the zero-point of a film’s countdown leader; it is the dark acetate of a roll of film stock as seen in profile; it is a void and an absolute fill, nothing and everything, the darkness of the movie house magnified to

infinity. It is the circle at the centre of each of our discs. In 1968, Jonas Mekas wrote that the Canadian underground film had “a finer vibration, a finer density, a finer matter.” It was bursting with an extraordinary diversity of forms, and its evolution in years since has prized photographic self-reflexivity, the landscape, the diary. Black Zero seeks to celebrate this cinema in both its dominant forms and its strange detours.

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