Cinema Year Zero

<p>Blaise Radley on Therese Henningsen's film. Driven by a recurring urge to encounter strangers with her camera, the filmmaker begins to film her solitary Greek Cypriot neighbour Pete in the tower block in North London...

<p>Kirsty Asher looks at Chloe Abrahams' cinematic love letter spanning time and generations, which probes at raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, untangling painful knots in her family’s...

<p>Tom de Lancy Green on Shared Resources, which depicts Jordan Lord’s family after their father was fired from his job as a debt collector and their parents declared bankruptcy, largely due to the filmmaker’s student...

<p>Ben Flanagan on Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued, The first feature-length film by Julian Castronovo. It follows a young filmmaker named Julian Castronovo who discovers a trail of...

<p>Arta Barzanji on Azza El-Hassan's documentary about the films in the PLO Media Unit. These were supposed to show a self-determined image of Palestinian reality – and they went missing during the Israeli invasion of...

<p>Emily Jisoo Bowles discusses Sofia Bohdanowicz’s Audrey project, an ongoing series of films made in collaboration with actor Deragh Campbell. Together, Bohdanowicz and Campbell have created the character of Audrey as...

<p>Four programmers on their online video that showcases the stories Britain tells about itself through the internet. From vlogs to memes to uncategorisable curiosities, these videos might not have initially been...

<p>Orla Smith speaks with Joe Bini about his attempt to cross the experience of reading a book with the experience of watching a film.</p>

<p>Kimia Ipakchi on the Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend 2025 programme </p>

<p>Orla Smith finds kinship between Ken Russell and the films of Caveh Zahedi.</p><p><br></p><p>On 23rd July, join us at The Cinema Museum for a rare screening of Crimes of Passion on 16mm, where print copies of the...

<p>Carmen Paddock on the composer as superhero – and supervillain. </p><p>On 23rd July, join us at The Cinema Museum for a rare screening of Crimes of Passion on 16mm, where print copies of the issue will be exclusively...

<p>Cinema Year Zero is excited to announce Volume 20: Ken Russell’s History of the World, a 7-essay retrospective of the untamable British director.</p><p>On 23rd July, join us at The Cinema Museum for a rare screening...

<p>Christmas, again.</p>

<p>Earlier this autumn, long before the pitch call for this Christmas edition of CYZ landed in my inbox, while absentmindedly scrolling through TikTok I came across a video by user @livgrace_x with the caption “If you...

<p>Woke Hallmark Movies DESTROYING Christmas</p>