Stephen Broomer (born 1984, Toronto, Canada)
Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker, film preservationist, public historian, educator, programmer and publisher. Broomer's 16mm films and digital videos have screened at festivals such as the San Francisco Cinematheque's Crossroads Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, and the New York Film Festival, and he has presented solo programs at venues such as Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Canadian Film Institute, the Pleasure Dome (Toronto), and the MassArt Film Society (Boston). In 2014, Broomer's films and videos were the subject of a book-length collection of essays published by the Canadian Film Institute, The Transformable Moment: The Films of Stephen Broomer.
Broomer received his PhD from Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) & York University's joint program in Communication and Culture in 2015. He has been an International Council of Canadian Studies postdoctoral fellow at Brock University’s Centre for Canadian Studies, a Fulbright scholar at the University of California Santa Cruz and the Prelinger Library, and has served as the scholar-in-residence at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre (Ryerson University) and at the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.
In 2016, Broomer’s first book, Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board, was published by University of Toronto Press. In 2017, he founded Sightline Editions, a publishing imprint focusing on the relation between poetry and cinema, and later that same year, the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre published his second book, Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film. His work on Canadian film led to the establishment of Black Zero, an archive and home video company dedicated to Canadian experimental cinema.
Broomer is also a video essayist. He is the creator and host of Art & Trash, a series on underground cinema.
Contact: stephen.broomer@gmail.com