Stephen Broomer

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Stephen Broomer (born 1984) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker, film scholar and video essayist. [1]

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Life and career

Son of jazz musician Stuart Broomer and influenced by Stan Brakhage when he began to make films, [2] [3] the Toronto-based filmmaker received his PhD in 2015 from Ryerson University & York University's joint program in Communications and Culture. [4]

He is the founder of the home video label Black Zero offering restorations of rare and forgotten Canadian experimental films by Arthur Lipsett, Richard Kerr and John Hofsess [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] and a contributing writer for the Portland-based publication Split Tooth Media, mainly on the October Horror series of written essays. [12] [13]

He is also the author of an upcoming critical biography on Lipsett (whom he called "a visionary force and holy fool") titled Secret Museums. [14]

Accolades

His series of video essays entitled Art & Trash, focusing on underground, avant-garde and cult cinema, have been mentioned in Sight & Sound's annual polls of best video essays multiple times. [15] [16] [17]

Selected filmography

Sources: [15] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [17] [32] [33] [34] [35]

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References

  1. ↑ "Light Cone - Stephen BROOMER". lightcone.org. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  2. ↑ "Mark Miller writing on my father, Stuart Broomer, for the May 18, 1978 issue of Downbeat. Stephen Broomer on Twitter". twitter.com. 1978-05-18. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  3. ↑ On Potamkin (for La Casa del Cine) - Stephen Broomer on Vimeo
  4. ↑ "Stephen Broomer - The Film-Makers' Cooperative". film-makerscoop.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  5. ↑ "Paths to Freedom: An Interview with Black Zero's Stephen Broomer". Split Tooth Media. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  6. ↑ "New Blu Ray of Three Films by Experimental filmmaker Richard Kerr". Offscreen. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  7. ↑ Lost and Found - Artfourm
  8. ↑ Nothing and Everything: Black Zero Begins - Cinema Scope
  9. ↑ Black Zero|Experimental Cinema
  10. ↑ "True Canadian Underground," Black Zero at Gimme Some Truth, Winnipeg Film Group (November 2024) - Black Zero on Vimeo
  11. ↑ Inside the Pleasure Palace – The Brooklyn Rail
  12. ↑ Paperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page and the Frayed Aesthetics of ‘The Timekeepers of Eternity’ (2021) - Split Tooth Media
  13. ↑ The Right Place: Martyrs and Monsters in 'Suffer Little Children' - Split Tooth Media
  14. ↑ November Books|Current|The Criterion Collection
  15. 1 2 "The best video essays of 2022 | Sight and Sound". bfi.org.uk. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  16. 1 2 "The best video essays of 2021 | Sight and Sound". bfi.org.uk. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  17. 1 2 The best video essays of 2023|BFI
  18. ↑ "Potamkin by Stephen Broomer | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center". artlitlab.org. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  19. ↑ "Stephen Broomer - IFFR EN". iffr.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  20. ↑ "'Wicked, Wicked,' Polyrhythmic Form, and the Vicious Split-Screen". Film School Rejects. 7 April 2023. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  21. ↑ "Be It True, or Be It Fals: Stephen Broomer Discusses "Tondal's Vision" on Notebook". MUBI. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  22. ↑ "An Experimental Decade, the Features: 30 Films of a Fortunate Man on Notebook". MUBI. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  23. ↑ "INCITE » Rituals in Transfigured Space: Interview with Stephen Broomer, by Clint Enns". incite-online.net. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
  24. ↑ Passions in the Labyrinth: The Decline of Classical Allegory in Johnny Minotaur - Split Tooth Media
  25. ↑ Figure and I|Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
  26. ↑ PyRTV
  27. ↑ The Carriage Set Upright: Stephen Broomer on Potamkin - Film International
  28. ↑ Second Deaths: Metaphors for Tolerance in Mindwarp - Split Tooth Media
  29. ↑ The Eyes of Hell: Depth and Death in The Mask - Art & Trash on Vimeo
  30. ↑ Canyon Cinema : Now in Stock: Three New Blu-rays from Black Zero
  31. ↑ Canyon Cinema : Canyon Cinema 50 — February & March Events
  32. ↑ Against Illustration: Poetics and Intuition in the Video Essay - Art & Trash on Vimeo
  33. ↑ Black Zero: Into the Underground of Home Viewing - TANGIBLE TERRITORY
  34. ↑ Now Available: New Digital Files from Stephen Broomer
  35. ↑ Paperback: Prisoners of the Printed Page in The Timekeepers of Eternity - Art & Trash on Vimeo
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