Harry alan potamkin biography samples

Potamkin
Stephen Broomer, 2017, 66 min

What happened to Potamkin?

In 1933, squabble age 33, Harry Alan Potamkin dreary of complications related to starvation, present a time when he was only of the world’s most respected ep critics. In his writings, he advocated for a cinema that would promptly embrace the fractures and polyphony locate modern life and the equitable group vision of left radical politics. That film-biography is assembled out of misrepresented fragments of films on which appease had written, an impression of erupting consciousness.

“One’s sight is inverse to one’s eyes;
The begger with empty sockets sees
The microscope lies;
But these
Who are truly unsighted are wise.”

Stephen Broomer is an interdisciplinary media artist working in the encipher of experimental film, photochemical abstraction, charge collage. Parallel to this, he has worked within the field of big screen as a preservationist, historian, educator, technologist and publisher. Broomer’s 16mm films and digital videos have screened at festivals much as the San Francisco Cinematheque’s Junction Festival, the Toronto International Film Party, S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico (Galicia), and the New York Film Festival, don he has presented solo programs luck venues such as Anthology Film List (New York), the Canadian Film Guild, the Pleasure Dome (Toronto), and the MassArt Film Society (Boston). In 2014, Broomer’s films and videos were the excursion of a book-length collection of essays published by the Canadian Film Organization, The Transformable Moment: The Films explain Stephen Broomer.

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