WRITINGS


BOOKS AND CATALOGUES AS AUTHOR

Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada. With Michael Zryd (primary contributors). Jim Shedden & Barbara Sternberg (eds.). Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 2021.

Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film. Toronto: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, 2017.

Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.


BOOKS AND CATALOGUES AS EDITOR

Exovede in the Darkroom: The Films of Rhayne Vermette. With Irene Bindi. Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2023.

Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque. With Clint Enns. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 2021.

Mythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm De Hirsch. New York: New York Filmmakers Cooperative, 2018.

In the Embryo of All Things: The Collected Poems of Harry Alan Potamkin. Toronto: Sightline Editions, 2017.


BOOKS AND CATALOGUES AS SUBJECT

Closed Positions. Hamilton, Ontario: CIRCA Project Gallery, 2015.

Scott Birdwise and Tom McSorley (eds.), The Transformable Moment: The Films of Stephen Broomer. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 2014.


ARTIST WRITINGS & MANIFESTOS

“Potamkin and the Energies of Modernism,” with Stuart Broomer. Parol - Quaderni d'arte e di epistemologia 30/31 (2019), 167-177.

"Notes for the Expanding Light," OtherZine 29 (September 2015).

"Beyond or Beneath Canada," Hamilton Arts & Letters 7.2 (2014-15).

"The Chance of Resurrection," The Unstitute, April 15, 2014.


SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS AS AUTHOR

“Stationary Targets: Craig Baldwin’s Bulletin,” in Brett Kashmere & Steve Polta (eds.), Craig Baldwin: Avant to Live! San Francisco: San Francisco Cinematheque and INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, 2023.

“The Syncretic Cinema,” in La memoria MUTA. Lima: MUTA, 2021.

“The Colours of Our Trade,” in Mike Hoolboom (ed.), Christine Lucy Latimer: Media Archaeologist. Ottawa: Canadian Film institute, 2019.

"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.


SELECTED ESSAYS, REVIEWS, AND INTERVIEWS AS SUBJECT

Ben R. Nicholson, “Wide Angle Profile: Stephen Broomer,“ Sight & Sound, October 2020, 24.

Mónica Delgado, “MUTA 2020: Lulu Faustine de Stephen Broomer,” Desistfilm, August 17, 2020.

Patrick Gamble, “Lost Dreams: Stephen Broomer’s Phantom Ride,” Kinoscope, June 5, 2020.

Michael Pattison, “Phantom Ride,” Alchemy Film & Arts Festival, May 3, 2020.

Chris Dymond, “Interview: Stephen Broomer,“ Moving Image Artists, February 15, 2020.

Ben R. Nicholson, “ALT/KINO: Stephen Broomer on Potamkin,” ALT/KINO, December 15, 2019.

Mónica Delgado, “MUTA 2019: Phantom Ride de Stephen Broomer,” Desistfilm, September 14, 2019.

Adina Glickstein, “Cinematic Visions of Dante and Video Games Come Together in Russia,” Hyperallergic, August 21, 2019.

Ben R. Nicholson, “Be It True, or Be It Fals: Stephen Broomer Discusses Tondal’s Vision,” MUBI, August 12, 2019.

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.