Cinema Year Zero

Cinema Year Zero


Latest Episodes

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

2012’s Trouble With The Curve opens on a then-83 year-old Clint Eastwood in dialogue with his penis, attempting to coax pee out by berating it with gruff, raspy words.

MINORITY REPORT | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

Detective John Anderton spends his days in the future, solving murders that haven’t happened yet.

A STONE’S THROW | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

During each presentation at the fourth and latest edition of New York’s Prismatic Ground film festival,  which focuses on experimental and documentary cinema, the founder and organiser, Inney Prakash, made it a point to note that the genocide of Palestini

P.S. WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO DIE | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

Think of Arnold van Gennep.

DARK BLOOD | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

“I shot the movie in 1993,” rasps the unseen director George Sluizer with a Herzog-like Germanic twang, his haggard voice emanating from the screen as it zooms slowly in on a still photograph: Sluizer’s arm is linked casually, almost absent-mindedly, with

SUPER MARIO BROS. | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

The film was dead: to begin with.

INTRO | PSYCHOPOMP
June 13, 2024

The method of cinema invokes the ghost of reality rather than reanimating it, the technology itself the vessel through which the ghost is projected to the seeing eye.

THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY MCKENZIE | VISCERA
March 02, 2024

Digby Houghton reckons with the varying fortunes of the Australian film industry, where, for a time in the 70s, titillation was successful in getting arses in local cinema seats.

GHOST IN THE SHELL | VISCERA
February 02, 2024

Ellisha Izumi finds the body and mind separated in the works of Scarlett Johansson, parallelling similar tensions between her MCU-superstar status and her personal sense of self.

JAMÓN JAMÓN | VISCERA
February 01, 2024

Kirsty Asher pays tribute to the inimitable vaginal illusionist Sticky Vicky, using Bigas Lunas Iberian passion trilogy to examine the interplay of food and the erotic in the post-Francoist era.