Destroyed Cinema + Music is a local events company, film distributor, and label focused founded by Nick Workman and JP Meldrum in October 2024 based in Victoria BC.
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); After interviewing JP, we uncovered a mutual desire to see DIY music + movie nights in Victoria, and got to work.
For events, we put on a Music + Movies night, with a few acts and a feature film. We put together a semi-secret movie screening - the Destroyed Secret Cinema - in collaboration with our friends at Colage market. We do other events too, including the Destroyed Birthday Bash and hosting touring artists like acidtrip.ca. Check out our Events page to see what’s happening and has happened.
We’ve expanded into theatrical distribution by teaming up with EH24 to get their film The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man played theatrically in Victoria and Vancouver. .
We’re quietly starting a boutique Blu-ray & archival record label focusing on contemporary Canadian DIY and global Outsider art; more on that in 2026.
Our goal is to foster a richer DIY movie scene by connecting the movies to the music; DIY music continues to thrive subculturally, while DIY film exists largely as exceptional and island-like. We aim 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 content, but we are not totally stringent on that modus operandi.
We have a mutual love for cult cinema, B-movies, experimental art, outsider art, extreme music, and video games; we’ve messed around across those intersections of creativity ourselves.
Destroyed Cinema + Music puts together Zines for each of our big events, which feature interviews, art, writing, lists, and such in collaboration with the broader community. Come to a show, pick-up a zine, or give it a read on here.
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, or even distribute your film for you; or, if you have some super-duper obscure movie your neighbour made that’s been lost to time, or that you think fits our ethos, we want that too.
- Nick and JP