Description: Secret Museums is a study in the life and work of Canadian filmmaker Arthur Lipsett, whose struggles with illness overshadowed his vital and innovative work. It explores the spiritual themes and formal challenges posed by his films and their relation to the absurdist, comic, beatnik attitudes that defined the era in which they were made.
Brief description: Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker, writer, and video essayist based in Toronto, Canada. Broomer has been a Fulbright Scholar at University of California Santa Cruz, and he teaches courses in video essaying and Canadian experimental film at the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto.
Review Quotes: No one researches and writes on experimental film as ardently and thoroughly as Stephen Broomer. And the immortal found-footage visionary Arthur Lipsett gets the wall-to-wall, deep-pile, ultra-sensory Broomer treatment here in what will stand forever as the definitive study of the artist whose influences can be found everywhere in cinema today. Read this book! Love this book! --Guy Maddin