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Stephen Broomer’s THE STAR ROVER : A SUN-PLAY OF THE AGES is a feature-length experimental film. It is an abstract visual and aural experience, loosely adapted from Jack London's 1915 anti-carceral fantasy novel of the same name, which is an account of a prisoner who spends a life sentence constrained in a strait-jacket, dreaming his past lives. London was inspired to write this novel by the experiences of Ed Morrell, a prisoner who lived through such an experience. London’s narrator hallucinates himself into various roles throughout history.
THE STAR ROVER illustrates this story through a combination of text and scenes from D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE: LOVE'S STRUGGLE THROUGH THE AGES, which deals with the histories of love and oppression through many centuries reaching back to before the common era. In THE STAR ROVER, Broomer takes these works – London’s novel and Griffith’s film – and refashions them into something abstract, reworking images and texts until they become alien and produce an unconventional beauty. This is a film against torture, constraint and deprivation. The project continues a theme in Broomer’s work concerning historical cinema that began with POTAMKIN (2017).
Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker and writer from Toronto, Canada. His films have been featured in forums such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives and the San Francisco Cinematheque, and his work as a filmmaker has been profiled in Sight & Sound. He is the author of four books on Canadian experimental cinema.
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