Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker, writer, and video essayist based in Toronto, Canada. Broomer has been a Fulbright Scholar at University of California Santa Cruz, and he teaches courses in video essaying and Canadian experimental film at the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
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List of Illustrations / ix Acknowledgements / xi Introduction / 1 One The Stranger / 7 Two Revelation / 25 Three A Personal Vision / 41 Four Processional / 55 Five The Green Fuse / 71 Six Time-Capsule / 87 Seven Print-Out / 107 Eight Landscapes / 127 Nine Messages from Space / 153 Ten The 10,000 Things / 181 Notes / 195 Filmography / 225 Archival Sources / 227 Bibliography / 229 Index / 235
"No one researches and writes on experimental film as ardently and thoroughly as Stephen Broomer. And the immortal found-footage visionary Arthur Lipsett gets the wall-to-wall, deep-pile, ultra-sensory Broomer treatment here in what will stand forever as the definitive study of the artist whose influences can be found everywhere in cinema today. Read this book! Love this book!" - Guy Maddin "A clear-eyed and patient examination of Lipsett's enigmatic films.? Stephen Broomer sensitively traces Lipsett's trajectory from his art school days to his development as a filmmaker at the NFB, and eventually through the vicissitudes of an artist's life and processes. Full of deeply felt descriptions of the films, Broomer unearths Lipsett's collections of flowcharts, images, and diagrams he called his 'secret museum'-a disjointed cultural scrapbook at turns comically absurd and overwhelmingly dark. Broomer's book reminds us of Lipsett's extraordinary mind and capacity for humour, despite the sad circumstances of his descent into schizophrenia which has long cast a pall upon his life's work.?" - Jeanne Liotta