Stephen Broomer - Carousel Study (2016)

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A continuous 360-degree pan is host to shadows and changing light. Some hesitation. Insulation, concrete, and a wooden netting of walls. After a time the pan reverses. In layers it crosses itself. The shadows move against these time values. A light turns off in reverse. A tighter composition, still panning, rotates 360-degrees. The mechanism emits a gentle hum, which assumes chordal structures as it is sped and reversed. The only way this can end is suddenly. Made in the basement of my childhood home, summer 2016.


"While remaining true to the cinematic frame, Stephen Broomer’s Carousel uses both analogue and digital techniques to destabilize it. The work places smooth analogue and digital movement next to each other, with the camera panning around the room using a mechanical tripod head and with the image rotating around the centre of the screen using digital keyframing. In order to maintain the cinematic frame, the work distorts to reveal a frame anomaly hidden within the digital animation, further reinforcing the tension between analogue and digital animation. The work is a spatial study, reminiscent of Michael Snow’s La Région centrale (1971), only with a little toilet humour." Clint Enns, "The Frame is the Keyframe" (catalogue essay), 2016.





A waterfall cuts through the land along the Bruce Trail; birdsongs and a distant cloud; I stand in the shadow of an electric cross; a bow set in the cloud, a token of the covenant between god and man. Made at the Devil's Punchbowl conservation area, Hamilton, Ontario, March 2016. Made with the assistance of Daniel McIntyre. Thanks to Emmalyne Laurin and Lesley Loksi Chan. Film processed by Sylvain Chaussée at Niagara Custom Lab; film scanned by Lianna Hillerup at Frame Discreet.
Francesca Rusalen wrote this essay in response to the film on October 18, 2016, for her website L'emergere del possibile.

SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS AS AUTHOR

"A Hummingbird in Reverse: On Richard Kerr's morning ... came a day early," Found Footage Magazine 4 (2018). 116-119.
"La Cultura-Regalo del Underground: 'Envios', de Jeannette Muñoz / The Gift Culture of the Underground: Jeannette Muñoz's Envios," in Francisco Algarín Navarro (ed.), Jeannette Muñoz: El paisaje como un mar. Seville: Asociación Lumière, 2017. 122-128.
"Vuelta al tiempo: la restauración de The Book of All the Dead," A Cuarte Parede, December 10, 2017.
"Northern Densities: a note on the Canadian underground," Hambre: Dossier intervalos aberrantes (2017), 16-20.
"Strange Codes 04: Greg Curnoe's No Movie and Connexions," La Furia Umana 32 (2017).
"A Road Outside: Crossroads 2017," UZAK 27 (2017).
"Strange Codes 03: R. Bruce Elder's Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness and Permutations and Combinations," La Furia Umana 31 (2017).
"Kyle Whitehead: Strange Meetings," BlackFlash 34.2 (2017)
"The Success and Failure of Arthur Lipsett," Found Footage Magazine 3 (2017). 58-69.
"Strange Codes 02: John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure," La Furia Umana 30 (2017).
"Following South," in Hoolboom & Enns (eds.), Shock, Fear, and Belief: The Films and Videos of Madi Piller. Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2016. 60-62.
"Throwing Voices: Madi Piller and John Straiton," in Hoolboom & Enns (eds.), Shock, Fear, and Belief: The Films and Videos of Madi Piller. Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2016. 45-49.
"Keewatin Dewdney: Interlocking Parts," Lumière, November 2016.
"Strange Codes 01: R. Bruce Elder's Breath/Light/Birth," La Furia Umana 29 (2016)
"John Hofsess: Man in Pieces," Hamilton Arts & Letters 9.1 (2016).
"Michael Snow: Gathering and Dispersing" (liner note), Variations DVD compilation (Graphical Recordings 002, 2016).
"Alexandre Larose: The Lost Steps," BlackFlash 33.1 (January 2016).
"Nelson Ball & Barbara Caruso: Notes of Home," Hamilton Arts & Letters 8.2 (2015-16).
"Indivisible River: Films by Pablo Marín," Desistfilm, August 17, 2015.
"Sabrina Ratté: Surfaces in Space," BlackFlash 32.3 (August 2015).
"Eva Kolcze: The Protagonist of Architecture," The Seventh Art, May 25, 2015.
"Scott Fitzpatrick: Look Back in Toner," BlackFlash 32.2 (April 2015).
"Blake Williams; Sightings in Stereo," The Seventh Art, January 19, 2015.
"The Elusive Present: Chris Gallagher's Seeing in the Rain" (liner note), Angular volume 1 DVD compilation (Angular 01, 2015).
"Clint Enns: The Unfamiliar Messenger," The Seventh Art, October 10, 2014.
"Review: Explosion in the Movie Machine," Public Journal 49 (Spring 2014), 133-135.
"Review: Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways," Journal of Cultural Geography 29.1 (2012), 129-131.
"R. Bruce Elder: An Introduction," Hamilton Arts & Letters 4.2 (2011-12).
"Review: Ghosts and Numbers," Visual Anthropology Review 27 (May 2011), 103-105.
"Practice in a Cemetery: The North Carolina Documentaries of Ross McElwee," in Andrew Leiter (ed.), Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2011.
"Even the Pictures Lie: The Unreliable Narrator in the Film Noirs of Edgar G. Ulmer," in Gary Rhodes (ed.), Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2008.

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Memory Worked By Mirrors (2011) from Stephen Broomer on Vimeo.
SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS AS SUBJECT

Ela Bittencourt, "Performing the Past: Reporting on the Fronteira Festival," Notebook, May 30, 2018.
Giorgiomaria Cornelio, "The cinema as a healing light: interview with Stephen Broomer," La Camera Ardente, February 21, 2018.
Brian Howe, "Unexposed: Potamkin," Indy Week, web, January 2018.
Jeff Fedoruk, "Capital Broadcasts Culture," Canadian Literature: A Quarterly Review of Criticism and Review, web, January 26, 2018.
Tom Kohut, "Review: Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board," Canadian Journal of Communication 42:5 (2017).
Brian Wilson, "The Carriage Set Upright: Stephen Broomer on Potamkin," Film International, web, December 20, 2017.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, "Potamkin (in more ways than one, a preliminary report)," jonathanrosenbaum.net, November 26, 2017.
Katia Houde, "Review: Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board," Public Journal 56 (2017): 216-219.
Ivonne Sheen, "Potamkin by Stephen Broomer," Desistfilm, July 22, 2017. Spanish version.
Damián Bender, "Potamkin: El Negativo Con Reflejo," Cine Divergente, June 3, 2017.
Elena Duque, "Potamkin: Death of a Poet," S8 Editorial, June 2, 2017.
Brais Romero and Victor Paz, "(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico: Nova Lexislatura," A Cuarta Parede, February 1, 2017.
Matt Turner, "Is experimental animation on the rise?" Little White Lies, December 21, 2016.
Mike Hoolboom, "Collaborating on a Mystery: An Interview with Stephen Broomer," Pleasure Dome, October 3, 2016.
Valentina Dell'Aquila, "Stephen Broomer: Spirit in Landscape," La Furia Umana 29 (2016).
Brais Romero and Victor Paz, "Stephen Broomer: O Fillo Artístico de Jack Chambers e Michael Snow," A Cuarta Parede, August 8, 2016.
Riva Symko, "Re-presentations, Adaptations, and Variations," Luma Quarterly 5.2 (Summer 2016).
Neil Young, "Report from the (S8) film festival, A Coruna," Tribune, July 13, 2016.
Andrea Franco, "Review: (S8) 2016 VII Mostra de Cinema Periférico," Transit: Cine y otros desvíos, June 22. 2016.
Graham Rockingham, "Palace of Pleasure revisits McMaster Film Board's Warhol era," The Hamilton Spectator, June 21, 2016.
Fernando Solla, "Stephen Broomer - Los nuevos impresionistas," Cine Divergente, June 10, 2016.
Chandler Levack, "The McMaster Film Board's Indelible Influence on Hollywood North," TIFF Review, May 17, 2016.
Matthew Levine, "Review: Wild Currents," Found Footage Magazine 2 (May 2016), 101-2.
Jordan Cronk, "Knoxville's Big Ears Festival, the Avant-Garde SXSW, Adds a Film Program," Brooklyn Magazine, April 11, 2016.
Wheeler Winston Dixon, "Ecstatic Cinema: Romantic Experimental Filmmaking in the 1960s," Moving Image Archive News, February 20, 2016.
Wheeler Winston Dixon, "Preview: Hamilton Babylon," Frame by Frame, February 17, 2016.
With Kyle Whitehead, "Double Visions: Stephen Broomer & Kyle Whitehead in Dialogue," Luma Quarterly 2.1 (Fall 2015).
Tyler Tekatch, "Review: The Transformable Moment," Hamilton Arts & Letters 8.1 (2015).
Kyle Whitehead, "Present Act & Past Event," Answer Print, Winter 2015, 7-10.
Brett Kashmere, "Magic: The Gathering, or, Spirits in Season" (liner note), Angular volume 1 DVD compilation (Angular 01, 2015).
Kate Russell, "Stephen Broomer's Championship," Hamilton Arts & Letters 6.2 (2013-14).
Noel Murray, "Two short films highlight avant-garde tourism," The Dissolve, November 9, 2013.
Samuel La France, "TIFF 2013 Postscript," Cinemascope, September 20, 2013.
Jordan Cronk, "TIFF13: Wavelengths Shorts," Fandor Keyframe, September 12, 2013.
Daniel Kasman, "Notebook: TIFF 2013. Correspondences #5," MUBI Notebook, September 12, 2013.
Michael Sicinski, "Notebook: TIFF 2013. Wavelengths Experimental Films -- The Shorts and the Mediums," MUBI Notebook, September 8, 2013.
Jacqueline Valencia, "Stephen Broomer on Pepper's Ghost," Next Projection, September 7, 2013.
Jacqueline Valencia, "Review: Pepper's Ghost," Next Projection, September 6, 2013.
Mark Mann, "Experimental Filmmaker Stephen Broomer Haunts TIFF with Pepper's Ghost," Blouin ArtInfo, September 6, 2013.
Clint Enns, "Rituals in Transfigured Space: Interview with Stephen Broomer," INCITE: The Journal of Experimental Media, September 4, 2013.
Jason Anderson, "Lost and Found: John Hofsess's Palace of Pleasure," ArtForum, January 22, 2009.