Cameron Moneo

Pepper's Ghost

Stephen Broomer

Stephen Broomer, Eva Kolcze

Pepper's Ghost, by Torontonian Stephen Broomer, transforms an office formerly used for observation studies into a tunnel of performative, transfixing illusionism, creating surprising images using filters, fabric and a combination of sunlight and fluorescents. Recalling Slidelength (1969-71), Michael Snow's slideshow of plastic gels and hand gestures, Pepper's Ghost is a prolonged expression of demystified mystification, whose startling results are bolstered by a bold soundtrack.

Separate Vacations

Cameron Moneo

A found footage “re-narrative” of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit to Communist Cuba. Based on a freewheeling montage alternating between hallowed conventions of narrative filmmaking and unholy collisions of repurposed sound and image.