Meanwhile on Earth
$10.50
Reconnecting with Reality: Exploring Physical Media, Archives, Restoration, and Distribution, moderated by Professor Andrew Burke, will delve into the importance of preserving and rediscovering films of all genres through physical media, archival work, restoration, and innovative distribution strategies. The panel will feature esteemed panelists Stephen Broomer, Kier-La Janisse, and Elizabeth Purchell. Free to attend!
Presented in partnership with On Screen Manitoba.
Stephen Broomer is a filmmaker, film preservationist, public historian, educator, programmer, publisher and video essayist. Stephen’s 16mm films and digital videos have screened at festivals such as the San Francisco Cinematheque’s Crossroads Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, S8 Mostra de Cinema Periférico, and the New York Film Festival, and he has presented solo programs at venues such as Anthology Film Archives (New York), the Canadian Film Institute, the Pleasure Dome (Toronto), and the MassArt Film Society (Boston). His work on Canadian film led to the establishment of Black Zero, an archive and home video company dedicated to Canadian experimental cinema.
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, programmer, publisher, producer and founder of The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies. She is the author of House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and has been an editor on several books including Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015) and Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021). She wrote, directed and co-produced the feature documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021) and was a producer on Sean Hogan’s We Always Find Ourselves in the Sea (2017) and To Fire You Come at Last (2023), Mike McKinlay’s Tights Worship: The Processes of THE RITA (2019) and David Gregory’s Tales of the Uncanny (2020). She is an acquisitions executive and producer at Severin Films, where has curated and produced groundbreaking blu ray collections including All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
Elizabeth Purchell is a Brooklyn-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the creator of Ask Any Buddy. Elizabeth has appeared on nearly forty home video releases from labels like Altered Innocence, Severin Films, and Vinegar Syndrome. She programs and hosts the monthly Queer Cinema: Lost and Found screening series at Austin Film Society and the weekly Weird Wednesday series at Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn. She also co-programs and hosts the monthly queer film series and podcast Cruising the Movies at IFC Center. She was also on the programming team for the 2024 iteration of Frameline.
