ARTHUR LIPSETT: 16MM FILMS FROM THE NAC ARCHIVES
A selection of 16mm films from the Niagara Artists Centre Film Archives by Canadian collage filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, whose pioneering work in the 1960s influenced a generation of filmmakers and is celebrated for its dark humor, formal experimentation, and rhythmic energy.
Hosted by filmmaker and author Stephen Broomer, whose recent book Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett (2025) examines Lipsett’s life, struggles, and artistic vision.
The screening includes program introduction by Broomer and a 40 min screening program followed by Q&A.
Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker, film preservationist, and author of Hamilton Babylon: A History of the McMaster Film Board (2016), Codes for North: Foundations of the Canadian Avant-Garde Film (2017), and Secret Museums: The Films of Arthur Lipsett (2025). He co-authored Moments of Perception: Experimental Film in Canada (with Michael Zryd, 2021) and co-edited Imprints: The Films of Louise Bourque (with Clint Enns, 2021) and Exovede in the Darkroom: The Films of Rhayne Vermette (with Irene Bindi, 2023). A Fulbright visiting scholar and former International Council for Canadian Studies postdoctoral fellow, he is a sessional lecturer at the Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto.
Broomer returns to MNFF 2025 as guest juror, and expert host of the Arthur Lipsett program, after hosting the Bruce Elder program in 2023.