Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

Spectacular Optical, the indie publishing imprint of Canadian genre veteran Kier-La Janisse, has expanded its remit to include distribution.

By Stephen Broomer Arthur Lipsett’s first film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962, marking the arrival of an influential new voice. The film’s dark humour and dancing rhythms had captured the

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

Spectacular Optical Media is a Canadian small-press publisher of film and pop culture books and independent film producer/distributor.

A film about coercion that is itself coercive, 'In the Dark' draws on cultural anxieties as a woman accepts a challenge from a Master of Games

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Arthur Lipsett’s first film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962, marking the arrival of an influential new voice. The film’s dark humour and dancing rhythms had captured the spirit of his times...

David Rimmer's Language of the Brush and Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper, and a book trailer for a new critical biography of Arthur Lipsett!

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Black Zero is a home video publisher specializing in Canadian underground movies.

Jane Conger Belson, later Jane Conger Belson Shimané, entered San Francisco’s underground film scene in the mid-1950s through her common-law husband Jordan Belson, a painter and abstract animator whos...

Through the course of the 1970s, Richard Elfman led the avant-garde surrealist street theatre troupe and band The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. In 1978, Elfman would make Forbidden Zone, a featu...