Stephen Broomer (born 1984) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker, film scholar and video essayist. He is the founder of the home video label Black Zero, specializing in rare Canadian experimental films, and is the host of the video essay series Art & Trash and Detours (since 2021).
Bibliography
- Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016)
- Codes for North: the foundations of the Canadian avant-garde film (Toronto: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 2017)
- Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett (WLU Press, 2025)
Selected filmography
- Christ Church St. James (2011)
- Conservatory (2013)
- Pepper's Ghost (2013)
- Potamkin (2017)
- Tondal's Vision (2018)
- Phantom Ride (2019)
- Resurrection of the Body (2019)
- Art & Trash (2020)
- Lulu Faustine (2020)
- Fat Chance (2021)
- Josephine Massarella: One Woman Walking (2021)
- Against Illustration: Poetics and Intuition in the Video Essay (2024)
Sources:
References
- "Light Cone - Stephen BROOMER". lightcone.org. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "The best video essays of 2022 | Sight and Sound". bfi.org.uk. 13 January 2023. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "The best video essays of 2021 | Sight and Sound". bfi.org.uk. 18 January 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- The best video essays of 2023|BFI
- ^ The best video essays of 2024|Sight & Sound
- November Books|Current|The Criterion Collection
- "Potamkin by Stephen Broomer | Arts + Literature Laboratory | Madison Contemporary Arts Center". artlitlab.org. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "Stephen Broomer - IFFR EN". iffr.com. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "'Wicked, Wicked,' Polyrhythmic Form, and the Vicious Split-Screen". Film School Rejects. 7 April 2023. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "Be It True, or Be It Fals: Stephen Broomer Discusses "Tondal's Vision" on Notebook". MUBI. 12 August 2019. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "An Experimental Decade, the Features: 30 Films of a Fortunate Man on Notebook". MUBI. 17 December 2019. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- "INCITE » Rituals in Transfigured Space: Interview with Stephen Broomer, by Clint Enns". incite-online.net. Retrieved 2024-08-02.
- Figure and I|Lynne Sachs: experimental documentary filmmaker
- PyRTV
- The Carriage Set Upright: Stephen Broomer on Potamkin - Film International
- Canyon Cinema : Now in Stock: Three New Blu-rays from Black Zero
- Canyon Cinema : Canyon Cinema 50 — February & March Events
- Black Zero: Into the Underground of Home Viewing - TANGIBLE TERRITORY
- Now Available: New Digital Files from Stephen Broomer
- Moments of perception: Random Canadian Moments – SF Cinematheque
See also
- Psychotronic film
- Collage film
- Cult film
- Pauline Kael - title of the series named after her essay Art, Trash and the Movies
- Film noir
External links
- Official website
- Stephen Broomer at IMDb
- Official site for Art & Trash
- Art & Trash video essays on official Vimeo channel