Destroyed Cinema + Music was founded by Nick Workman and JP Meldrum in October of 2024 after uncovering a mutual desire to see DIY music + movie nights in Victoria. The name stems from Nick’s Destroyed Substack, in which he interviewed a plethora of local artists in the DIY, metal, punk, and experimental scene(s).

Every two months, we put on a Music + Movies night, with a few acts preceding a feature film. Once a month, we put together a semi-secret movie screening - which we call INSERT FUN NAME HERE - currently in collaboration with our friends at Colage market. Check out our Events page to see what’s happening and has happened.

Our goal is to foster a richer DIY movie scene in Victoria by connecting the movies to the music; our city’s DIY film scene is seemingly non-existent despite our abundance of creative freaks.

Destroyed Cinema + Music aims to herald those who refute institutionalized art, who do-it-themselves, and those who would otherwise fall through the industrial cracks. Our ethos lies somewhere between Slamdance, Fugazi, and Saturn’s Core.

Our focus is largely on Canadian cinema, but we are not totally stringent on that modus operandi.

We have a mutual love for cult cinema, B-movies, experimental art, extreme music, video games, and ‘outsiders’, and have messed around across that intersection of creativity ourselves.

Additionally, Destroyed Cinema + Music puts together zines for each of our events, which feature interviews, art, writing, lists, and such in collaboration with broader community. As we cherish and love physical media as means of preservation, the zine archive is password protected to incentivize getting the real-thing. Come to a show, pick-up a zine, and we’ll let you in on the secret code. We hope to soon have a podcast-interview series on CFUV.

If you feel like any of this resonates with you, please, drop us a line on Instagram or at destroyedcinemamusic@gmail.com. We’d love to listen to your bandcamp, watch your movie(s), and put together a show for you; or, if you have some super-duper obscure movie your neighbor made, thats been lost to time, or that you think fits our ethos, we want that too.

Nick and JP