Cinema Year Zero

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Audio versions of essays from Cinema Year Zero

  1. 30/07/2025

    MINDBENDER

    Ben Flanagan braves Ken Russell's Uri Geller biopic to find just how bad things can get for a great filmmaker.

    8 min

  2. 30/07/2025

    TOMMY

    Shelby Cooke worships at the Altar of Marilyn Monroe and the Church of the Pinball Wizard

    11 min

  3. 04/07/2025

    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 genre.

    10 min

  4. 04/07/2025

    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 block in North London where they both live.

    3 min

  5. 04/07/2025

    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 in her family’s unspoken past.

    4 min

  6. 04/07/2025

    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 filmmaker’s student debt.

    5 min

  7. 04/07/2025

    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 discovers a trail of clues related to the disappearance of a skilled art forger known as Fawn Ma.

    5 min

  8. 04/07/2025

    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 Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982. In a road movie from Palestine to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, director El-Hassan follows the contradicting and confusing clues as to the whereabouts of the lost archive.

    6 min
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Audio versions of essays from Cinema Year Zero

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  • Creator
    Cinema Year Zero
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2025
  • Episodes
    137
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Cinema Year Zero
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