Palace of Pleasure

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A long-neglected classic of Canadian experimental cinema, a triumph of erotic art, a film about which Gene Youngblood once wrote, “See it and you’ll see a window on the future: a Joyce-Burroughs assemblage of bold, poetic surreal visions of physical love in every conceivable form.

In 1967, John Hofsess released The Palace of Pleasure, a dual-screen therapeutic exploration of the erotic imagination. Intended as a trilogy, only the first two sequences were completed.

The first part, Redpath 25, is a fantasy meeting between a young woman and her dream lover; the second part, Black Zero, is a macabre, ritual vision of sexual freedom and domestic life that haunts the mind long after the screen has darkened.

First pressing, limited edition of 1000.

1967 / 38 minutes / colour / stereo / 2.66:1AR

SPECIAL FEATURES

  • Newly restored 4K digital master from the film’s surviving elements, approved by director John Hofsess
  • Commentary by film preservationist Stephen Broomer
  • The Columbus of Sex: a speculative reconstruction, an exploration of Hofsess’s lost feature film
  • The Looking Cure, a video essay by Broomer on Hofsess’s concept of ‘cinematherapy’
  • Resurrection of the Body, a speculative sequel to Hofsess’s film
  • Liner notes by Hofsess and Broomer

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Friday, February 3, 2023

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Black Zero

BLACK ZERO is a multimedia publisher specializing in Canadian experimental cinema from the 1960s to the present.

We are named for the second sequence in John Hofsess’s Palace of Pleasure. What does Black Zero mean to us? It is the solid black frame that marks the zero-point of a film’s countdown leader; it is the dark acetate of a roll of film stock as seen in...

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