Cinema Year Zero
Audio versions of essays from Cinema Year Zero
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 137
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
MINDBENDER
Ben Flanagan braves Ken Russell's Uri Geller biopic to find just how bad things can get for a great filmmaker.
TOMMY
Shelby Cooke worships at the Altar of Marilyn Monroe and the Church of the Pinball Wizard
History of Personal Documentary in 10 Films | CNFW
Caught the personal documentary fever but don’t know where to go next? Luckily for you, Cinema Year Zero has assembled a list of ten further films from throughout the short but vibrant history of the…
All These Summers | CNFW
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 bloc…
The Taste of Mango | CNFW
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 i…
Shared Resources | CNFW
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 film…
Debut | CNFW
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 discove…
Kings & Extras | CNFW
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 Isra…
MS Slavic 7 | CNFW
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 chara…
Chronically Online: A Personal History of the UK Internet | CNFW
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 init…
Burden of Other People’s Dreams | CNFW
Orla Smith speaks with Joe Bini about his attempt to cross the experience of reading a book with the experience of watching a film.
Programmer's Note | CNFW
Kimia Ipakchi on the Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend 2025 programme
Altered States | Ken Russell
Orla Smith finds kinship between Ken Russell and the films of Caveh Zahedi.
On 23rd July, join us at The Cinema Museum for a rare screening of Crimes of Passion on 16mm, where print copies of the issu…
Lisztomania | Ken Russell
Carmen Paddock on the composer as superhero – and supervillain.
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 e…
Ken Russell’s History of the World
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.
On 23rd July, join us at The Cinema Museum for a rare …
DECK THE HEART | HALLMARK
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 …
THE SECRETS OF BELLA VISTA | HALLMARK
Woke Hallmark Movies DESTROYING Christmas
EVE'S CHRISTMAS | HALLMARK
In 2004, a movie was released about the joyous reclamation of youthful romance through time travel, and the rejection of hard-bitten corporate life in favour of downhome suburban bliss.