Stephen Broomer Explained
Stephen Broomer (born 1984) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker, film scholar and video essayist.[1]
Life and career
Son of jazz musician Stuart Broomer and influenced by Stan Brakhage when beginning 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 also 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]
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.[8] [9] [10]
Selected filmography
- Queen's Quay (2012)
- Pepper's Ghost (2013)
- Jenny Haniver (2014)
- Variations of a Theme by Michael Snow (2015)
- The Bow and the Cloud (2016)
- Potamkin (2017) - his first feature work about the late pioneering film critic Harry Alan Potamkin, one of the first to proclaim cinema as an art form, composed of fragments from the many films he reviewed for newspapers and magazines during the 1920s and 1930s.
- Tondal's Vision (2018)
- Fat Chance (2021)
- Josephine Massarella: One Woman Walking (2021)
- Closing Distance: The Cosmic View, the Terrestrial Horizon and Jean-Claude Labrecque's Essai a la mille (2022)
- The Stairwell: Memories and Mirages of Film Noir (2022)
- Simultaneous Tensions: The Duo-Vision of Wicked, Wicked (2023)
- Passions in the Labyrinth: The Decline of Classical Allegory in Johnny Minotaur (2024)
Sources:[8] [9] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20]
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Light Cone - Stephen BROOMER. lightcone.org. 2024-08-02.
- Web site: 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. 2024-08-02.
- https://vimeo.com/989113491 On Potamkin (for La Casa del Cine) - Stephen Broomer on Vimeo
- Web site: Stephen Broomer - The Film-Makers' Cooperative. film-makerscoop.com. 2024-08-02.
- Web site: Paths to Freedom: An Interview with Black Zero's Stephen Broomer. Split Tooth Media. 18 July 2023 . 2024-08-02.
- Web site: New Blu Ray of Three Films by Experimental filmmaker Richard Kerr. Offscreen. 2024-08-02.
- https://www.artforum.com/columns/jason-anderson-on-john-hofsesss-palace-of-pleasure-190083/ Lost and Found - Artfourm
- Web site: The best video essays of 2022 Sight and Sound. bfi.org.uk. 13 January 2023 . 2024-08-02.
- Web site: The best video essays of 2021 Sight and Sound. bfi.org.uk. 18 January 2022 . 2024-08-02.
- https://www.bfi.org.uk/polls/best-video-essays-2023 The best video essays of 2023|BFI
- Web site: Potamkin by Stephen Broomer Arts + Literature Laboratory Madison Contemporary Arts Center. artlitlab.org. 29 July 2022 . 2024-08-02.
- Web site: Stephen Broomer - IFFR EN. iffr.com. 2024-08-02.
- Web site: 'Wicked, Wicked,' Polyrhythmic Form, and the Vicious Split-Screen . Film School Rejects. 7 April 2023 . 2024-08-02.
- Web site: Be It True, or Be It Fals: Stephen Broomer Discusses "Tondal's Vision" on Notebook. MUBI. 12 August 2019 . 2024-08-02.
- Web site: An Experimental Decade, the Features: 30 Films of a Fortunate Man on Notebook. MUBI. 17 December 2019 . 2024-08-02.
- Web site: INCITE ยป Rituals in Transfigured Space: Interview with Stephen Broomer, by Clint Enns. incite-online.net. 2024-08-02.
- https://www.splittoothmedia.com/johnny-minotaur/ Passions in the Labyrinth: The Decline of Classical Allegory in Johnny Minotaur - Split Tooth Media
- https://www.lynnesachs.com/tag/figure-and-i/ Figure and I|Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
- https://www.puntoyrayafestival.com/tv/artists/broomer-stephen PyRTV
- https://filmint.nu/carriage-broomer-potamkin/ The Carriage Set Upright: Stephen Broomer on Potamkin - Film International
