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Stephen Broomer

Stephen Broomer (b. 1984) is a filmmaker and film preservationist. He holds a BFA in Film and Video Production, an MA in Film Studies, and a PhD in Communication & Culture, his dissertation a study of the origins of the Canadian avant-garde film. He has given public presentations of his film restoration work at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Film Institute, and his own films have screened at Views from the Avant-Garde, TIFF Wavelengths, and the Berlin Directors Lounge.

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Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada
Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture’s stories, its memory.

Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde films from the 1950s to the present day, including their contradictions and complexities.
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La Camera Ardente at the Pesaro Film Festival

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 08/06/2019 - 05:04

Dates:
Wednesday, June 19, 2019 (All day)
Venue:
Palazzo Gradari - Pesaro, Italy
ad hoc #13: Stephen Broomer's Potamkin

By Anonymous on Mon, 15/10/2018 - 03:35

In 1933, at age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin died of complications related to starvation, at a time when he was one of the world's most respected film critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would simultaneously embrace the fractures and polyphony of modern life and the equitable social vision of left radical politics. This film-biography is assembled out of distorted fragments of films on which he had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

Dates:
Friday, November 16, 2018 - 19:00 to Saturday, November 17, 2018 - 18:55
Venue:
Innis College (Room 222) - Toronto , Canada
Mythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm De Hirsch
Storm De Hirsch began publishing poetry and art criticism in American little magazines in the 1950s. Her work arrived in the vacuum of American postwar poetry and with no clear affiliation. It was on the periphery of the east coast Beat movement, engaging punctuative declarations, onomatopoeia, chorus repetitions and sensual, ornithological and Cabalistic imagery. De Hirsch’s poems are shamanistic, bearing properties of the magic ritual and incantation, and her mysticism as well as her passions for new forms led her in the visionary direction of the New American Cinema.
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Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film
Codes for North is a study of the early evolution of the Canadian avant-garde film and its roots in an aesthetic of difficulty. Stephen Broomer traces the evolution of this cinema through the work of three artists—Jack Chambers, Michael Snow and Joyce Wieland—from their early development as painters in the 1950s to the creation of their epic films: Reason Over Passion (1969), The Hart of London (1970), and La Region Centrale (1971). Their work formed in response to a strain of Neo-Dada that took root in southern Ontario in the late 1950s.
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Visions | 14.12.17 | Eva Kolcze

By Benjamin Taylor on Tue, 12/12/2017 - 03:55

In collaboration with la lumière collective, VISIONS presents : EVA KOLCZE

[Filmmaker present | En présence de la cinéaste | Projection HD + 16mm]

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Topography + Traces
[Works by Eva Kolcze + selected works from other artists]
Dates:
Thursday, December 14, 2017 - 20:00 to Friday, December 15, 2017 - 19:55
Venue:
la lumière collective - Montréal, Canada
(S8) Mostra de Cine Periférico 2017

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 22/05/2017 - 10:06

(S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico will return to A Coruña from May 31 to June 4 to celebrating a special anniversary- its 8th edition - with an ambitious program. The new edition, under the title of Objects and Apparitions, is inspired by found footage cinema under the figure of the seminal artist of this film process, Joseph Cornell. The legacy of the North American multidisciplinary and surrealist creator has guided the elaboration of the official poster, where, imitating a kind of Cornell box, the spirit of appropriation is used to reflect his whole philosophy. Together with Cornell, the (S8) will present the works of two of the most prominent representatives of found footage film now: Cécile Fontaine and Luther Price. In addition, the program Found Sounds, curated by Mónica Savirón, will revolve around the work of Dutch filmmaker Barbara Meter.

Dates:
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 (All day) to Sunday, June 4, 2017 (All day)
Saul Levine: Radical Correspondent

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 09/01/2017 - 09:33

Saul Levine is one of the leading figures in the autobiographical tradition within underground cinema. His films are often marked by a direct confrontation with the fragile material of 8mm, and the resulting works bear the marks of his construction, splices appearing like indentions in concrete.
Dates:
Friday, January 27, 2017 - 19:00 to Saturday, January 28, 2017 - 18:55
Venue:
Polish Combatants Hall - Toronto, Canada
la lumière presents Loop Collective & Dan Browne

By Dan Browne on Tue, 29/11/2016 - 10:01

la lumière collective presents: Loop Collective & Dan Browne

Programme 1, December 8th, 2016 - Loop Collective: Recent Works
Programme 2, December 9th, 2016 - Materia Prima: Films by Dan Browne
*Film prints and filmmaker present

Dates:
Thursday, December 8, 2016 - 19:30 to Friday, December 9, 2016 - 21:55
Friday, December 9, 2016 - 19:30 to Saturday, December 10, 2016 - 21:55
Venue:
la lumière collective - Montréal, Canada
Edge of Frame: Elemental Animation

By Anonymous on Tue, 22/11/2016 - 14:11

A programme of works which use the material of film itself as a canvas. These visceral, vibrant films feature camera-less techniques such as scratching, painting and printing onto the filmstrip, subjecting film to decay and decomposition, and affixing materials such as letraset or insects to its surface. The remarkable visions created through these diverse approaches fill the frame with dynamic textures and colour, and many will be presented on 16mm and 35mm prints. Seen in the cinema, these works achieve a powerful effect, immersing us in strange and previously unseen worlds, and displaying the breadth and scope of abstract film.

Dates:
Friday, December 2, 2016 - 20:00 to Saturday, December 3, 2016 - 19:55
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, United Kingdom