Movies and TvShows featuring "zines" theme.

Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana is a documentary film that explores the legal battle of underground comic book artist Mike Diana, who was the first person to be convicted of obscenity in the United States for his graphic zines. The film provides a deep dive into Diana's trial, highlighting the issues of censorship, freedom of speech, and the importance of art.

Class Acts is a feature-length documentary tracing the genesis of Singapore's creative scene in the '90s through intimate conversations with its pioneering personalities. These are the stories of individuals who started creating with nothing, who push Singapore’s creative standards even today. The ones who went on to inspire a new generation of musicians, designers, and street artists.

The life and work of Aaron Tsuru. Aaron is a renegade photographer and zine maker who has risen to cult status on the Internet.

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard publishing movement that has emerged from these in the 21st century. Reflecting on the different contexts that propelled this form of community publishing, like Argentina’s 2001 economic crisis, the independent art scene, and the movements which formed around waste-pickers, the film’s narrative is developed through conversations with important actors from the cartonera world.

This film reveals the resurgent San Francisco Bay Area culture of zines - artistic publications that are self-made, accessible, intentionally tactile and NOT the Internet. We meet remarkable zine authors in their studios, a major art museum curator, and avid zine festival goers and promoters.