Stephen Broomer Trailers
Pepper's Ghost Trailer
Stephen Broomer 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.
Most Popular Stephen Broomer Trailers
Total trailers found: 45
30 May 2010
Trains travel to and from a fixed point in space beneath a variable colored horizon.
12 July 2013
Lily Dale is a spiritualist community in Chautauqua County, New York. Pilgrims and tourists swarm the hamlet in summer, but in the fall, Lily Dale becomes a more intimate setting for spectral communions.
02 June 2021
Hollywood noir icon Laird Cregar's inner turmoil as a black-on-grey delirium of shadows and spectres.
10 December 2015
Just / faintly / a corner / was / seen there / trying / to look / like an edge.
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26 August 2015
An interstice.
07 September 2013
Pepper's Ghost, by Torontonian Stephen Broomer, transforms an office formerly used for observation studies into a tunnel of performative, transfixing illusionism, creating surprising images using filters, fabric and a combination of sunlight and fluorescents.
02 January 2014
A photographer steadies a Polaroid camera and composes a shot of the sky, flanked by tree branches. Later, a woman wakes from a nightmare.
28 October 2012
Snake grass lines a forest path. The camera passes toward the entrance to the woods. It staggers and repeats as the scene is saturated in colour.
02 January 2012
Brébeuf is a study of St. Ignace II, in Huronia, where the ethnographers and Jesuit missionaries, later saints, Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalemant, were killed in 1649.
26 August 2015
An interstice.
27 February 2011
A mirror in the filmmaker's backyard reflects his childhood home. The black frame of the watermarked mirror becomes a mysterious portal, distorting brick, branch, and flesh into an amorphous hodgepodge.
06 October 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.
02 January 2014
Encores live yet
Slice every note, each notice sincere in secret
Lovers covet eyeliner to recite ie
20 April 2014
The North Toronto Wastewater Treatment Plant lies in thick brush downhill from a hydroelectric corridor.
25 August 2015
Seagulls hover and dip on the rocky coastline of Gibraltar Point. Tilting and multiple horizons camouflage the birds, splintering and gathering the lone gull to the flock.
01 January 2011
Birds in flight break through rusted clouds and translucent buildings. Rebar at a construction site s
02 January 2013
At a wrestling tournament, a young competitor faces match upon match. Referees converge on the scene.
26 August 2015
An interstice
26 August 2015
A tragic mistake jolts Teddy and Joanne into limbo. Their spirits bear witness to their past usage of household appliances, as if by electric charge they might uncoil their spectral presences from home and garden.
06 October 2020
The howl of an infant, a tinsel pastoral. ""And the trains still go through the station at La Ciotat.
27 September 2013
Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.
23 March 2013
Apis the bull of Memphis, earthly representation of the god Ptah. At the temple, Apis the oracle, his movements interpreted as prophecies, his breath as medicine.
08 February 2012
Red, green, blue, and yellow grids track the horizon, left and right. The colours collide and mix.
08 September 2019
In Phantom Ride, Stephen Broomer permutates the home films of Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885 – 1966), a self-made hosiery mill owner from Philadelphia, into a road movie.
18 October 2016
The ruins of a nineteenth century farm in the brush off Moatfield Drive in Toronto - a stone shack without a roof and, not much further, a well, long since abandoned as a sewer.
02 January 2013
In Toronto's Nordheimer Ravine, an environment of thick brush and dead wood flattens into fields of colour.
03 September 2017
Day and night in a hotel window in Ottawa. The window frame vibrates and multiplies. An embarrassment of lampshades.
19 October 2014
The thistle, shamrock, rose entwined, a vision in the longhouse, a dream in the wilderness.
15 April 2021
Ed Emshwiller’s Relativity (1966) is a reflection of the ceaseless possibilities of nature to produce distinctive forms acting in concert with one another.
25 August 2015
Studies in motion, made red, black and blue by tone and tint. To be present in a landscape is to turn from vision to a menacing rhythm.
02 January 2014
Still but twisting eye
From fall’s wither to first snow
Where lives my wonder
18 October 2013
On Zerah Colburn, the early-nineteenth-century human calculator, made into a sideshow attraction by his father.
02 January 2014
Serena Gundy Park, in Toronto, so named for the late wife of Toronto businessman James Henry Gundy, who influenced the financial character of early twentieth-century Canada.
02 January 2013
Shapes in a dollhouse betray the fatal competition of earthly things.
30 November 2011
In the spring of 1998, Christ Church - Saint James, an historic black church in Toronto's Little Italy, was destroyed by arson.
27 September 2013
Stamens and pistils are lit in rapid succession behind the dome of the Palm House at Allan Gardens in Toronto.
02 June 2017
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.
23 August 2023
In early 2020, MUTA - International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation and Cine Íntimo rescued and digitised a Peruvian archive of orphaned 8mm and Super 8 home movies.
12 November 2018
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan and Giuseppe De Liguoro’s L’inferno (1911), a Doré-inspired visualisation of the eponymous first canticle in Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia (1320), is commonly considered to be Italy’s first feature-length film – and also the first local attempt at making something that, in the eyes of a bourgeois audience, would be accepted as having artistic value.
23 January 2018
Jacques Madvo’s street photography of Paris in 1961 is a launching point for a reflection on water forms and their distortion of optics.
26 July 2020
A miracle happened: summer came prematurely. Being in love with an image was worse than being in love with a ghost.
18 December 2022
By Stephen Broomer
28 June 2019
"In memoriam. Man in pieces. You have the lovers, remade by funhouse mirrors; you have the symmetries, undone, bent and curved; and you have the model, the bag on her head filling with carbon dioxide.
20 April 2012
On the paths that cut through Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park, at the foot of Leslie Street, an assortment of terrains collide: thicket, pebbled shorelines, muddy vistas, and fertile earth with beds of wildflowers.
