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.

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.

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.