IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

      NL
      Stephen Broomer

      Stephen Broomer

      Still: Fat Chance
      Stephen BROOMER (1984, Canada) is a filmmaker, historian, educator and preservationist. In 2014, the book The Transformable Moment: The Films of Stephen Broomer was released, in which his films were discussed in multiple essays. In 2015, he received his PhD in Communication & Culture from Ryerson University and York University. He has given numerous presentations about film restoration, including at Harvard. He is the author of Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film. In 2017, he founded the publishing imprint Sightlines, focusing on the relation between cinema and poetry. That year he also released his first feature Potamkin.

      Filmography

      Manor Road (2010, short), Memory Worked by Mirrors (2011, short), Christ Church − Saint James (2011, short), Balinese Rebar (2011, short), Snakegrass (2012, short), Brébeuf (2012, short), Queen’s Quay (2012, short), The Order of Ideas at the Leslie Street Spit (2012, short), Ravine (2013, short), Championship (2013, short), Spirits in Season (2013, short), Pepper’s Ghost (2013, short), Conservatory (2013, short), Blue Guitar (2013, short), Zerah’s Gift (2013, short), Apis in Memphis (2013, short), The Shapes Book (2013, short), Hang Twelve (2014, short), Serena Gundy (2014, short), Jenny Haniver (2014, short), Wastewater (2014, short), Dominion (2014, short), The Season Word (2014, short), Variations on a Theme by Michael Snow (2015, short), Wild Currents (2015, short), Moatfield (2015, short), Bridge 1A (2015, short), Bridge 1B (2015, short), Landform 1 (2015, short), Bridge 1C (2015, short), Gulls at Gibraltar (2015, short),Mills (2016, short), The Bow and the Cloud (2016, short), Carousel Study (2016, short), Potamkin (2017), Residence Inn (2017, short), Fountains of Paris (2018, short), Tondal’s Vision (2018), Resurrection of the Body (2019, short), Phantom Ride (2019), Arrival on the Train (2020, short), Fat Chance (2021)

      Stephen Broomer at IFFR