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Stephen Broomer (he/him) is a filmmaker, video essayist, and independent scholar working at the intersections of experimental cinema, Canadian cultural history, and the digital humanities. In 2020, Broomer served as a Fulbright Scholar with the University of California Santa Cruz and the Prelinger Library (San Francisco), pursuing research in the preservation of home movies. As archivist and founder of the Black Zero Media Collection (Toronto) and the home video label Black Zero, Broomer focuses on the restoration of Canadian independent, non-fiction and experimental films, touring and contextualizing them for a contemporary audience. He has restored films by John Hofsess, Keith Lock, Arthur Lipsett, R. Bruce Elder, and Josephine Massarella, among others, and he has presented programs of his restorations at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Canadian Film Institute, the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), the Pleasuredome (Toronto), and the Fronteira International Documentary Film Festival (Brazil).
Broomer’s emphasis on Canadian experimental cinema has also been essential to his scholarship, as the author of three monographs and co-author of a textbook on the subject. As a member of the Canadian media arts community, he has served as an executive board member with the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, and the8fest, and since 2017, he has curated public programs through the Ad Hoc screening collective based at University of Toronto's Innis College. In addition to his scholarship and contributions to film preservation, Broomer has received retrospectives of his creative work at Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Canadian Film Institute, and at the S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico (A Coruña), and his films were the subject of an edited collection, The Transformable Moment: The Films of Stephen Broomer (Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 2015). Since 2021, Broomer has served as the host of two ongoing video essay series, Art & Trash, on the relations between underground and cult cinema, and Detours, on film noir.
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POTAMKIN
2017 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 67' 00 / 158 € distribution: 16mm |
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LANDFORM 1
2015 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 2' 26 / 26 € distribution: 16mm |
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DOMINION
2014 / Video / color / silent / single screen / 8' 00 / 34 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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JENNY HANIVER
2014 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 15' 31 / 66 € distribution: 16mm |
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SERENA GUNDY
2014 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 3' 32 / 27 € distribution: 16mm |
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BLUE GUITAR
2013 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 5' 10 / 34 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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CONSERVATORY
2013 / Super 8mm / color / silent / single screen / 3' 32 / 27 € distribution: 16mm |
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PEPPER'S GHOST
2013 / Video / color / sound / single screen / 18' 20 / 66 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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RAVINE
2013 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 4' 31 / 27 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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THE ORDER OF IDEAS AT THE LESLIE STREET SPIT
2012 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 3' 32 / 27 € distribution: 16mm |
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QUEEN'S QUAY
2012 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 1' 11 / 21 € distribution: 16mm |
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SNAKEGRASS
2012 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 1' 08 / 21 € distribution: 16mm |
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BALINESE REBAR
2011 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 3' 32 / 27 € distribution: 16mm |
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CHRIST CHURCH - SAINT JAMES
2011 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 34 € distribution: 16mm |
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MEMORY WORKED BY MIRRORS
2011 / 16mm / color-b&w / silent / single screen / 2' 00 / 21 € distribution: 16mm |
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MANOR ROAD
2010 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 3' 00 / 23 € distribution: 16mm |