Flowers #3 (Kissed by the Sun) (2023)
This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs. ...
Watch NowThis motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs. ...
Watch NowFilmed over 2 years (2020–2022), at home and away, Deep 1 is a diaristic meditation, flower/plant processed. ...
Watch NowThe speculative tale of Canadian outsider musician Lewis and the belated discovery of his 1983 album "L'Amour". A love story composed in myth and song. ...
Watch Nowvulture sets its sights on farm animals, their surrounding flora, and the farming process. Static shots and slow-moving zooms follow the grazing animals in their minute inter-species exchanges. When left to roam together, the sensibilities of these "beasts ...
Watch NowThe clean 16mm image is processed normally in a lab. Outdated film stock from the 1980s-90s which Peter Mettler recently gave Philip Hoffman accounts for superimpositions. The tinting and toning was done via 'green' processing with flowers. The shooting an ...
Watch NowProcessed with conventional photo chemicals and the following flowers: magnolia blossoms, hyacinth, hydrangea, daffodil, rhododendron, pond algae, lilac, oregano (with blooms), comfrey (with blooms), roses, mint, goldenrod, hostas buds after flowering, and ...
Watch NowThe clean 16mm image is processed normally in a lab, but the tinting and toning was done via 'green' processing with flowers. The shooting and hand developing with flowers was done by Philip Hoffman. It was scanned and then digitally edited by Isiah Medina ...
Watch NowA kinetic journey through Expo 67, revisiting Canada's centennial through the symbols, choreographies, and built environments of the World's Fair and its construction of (inter)nationalism. Reworking archival footage, By the Time We Got to Expo creates a v ...
Watch Now"Slaughterhouse has all the ingredients of history but its collage form forces a reading less linear, and more conducive to seeing history anew.." -P. ...
Watch NowLessons in Process is an experimental documentary about a filmmaking workshop given by Canadian filmmaker/teacher Phil Hoffman, at the famed Internacional de Cine y Television, at San Antonio de Los Banos in Cuba. The film is a meditation on generations an ...
Watch NowAn experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what has been here before? ...
Watch NowFilmmaker Philip Hoffman and poet Gerry Shikatani combine to make a cine-poem about the making of gardens, films and poems. Excerpts from Shikatani's `First Book, Three Gardens of Andalucia'. ...
Watch NowCompleted in 2001, what these ashes wanted—which combines hand-processed film, video diaries, found sound, text and narration—is a ritual of grief that seems both shared and private. Our own stories of grief fill the gaps between Hoffman's images of Eg ...
Watch NowKokoro Is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel pit. When I got the footage back from the lab I was disappointed because of the periodic flipping of the ...
Watch NowIn attempting to deal with his HIV status, the narrator mixes his past and present to give us a portrait of friendships, family ties, and other intimate relationships. ...
Watch Now"In 1989 I finished the film Kitchener-Berlin and put a close to a cycle of work which dealt directly with myself, and how self is expressed/constructed cinematically. At the same time I took my old super-8 camera out of the closet, and began collecting im ...
Watch NowSweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces in-between image and text, photography and memory, body and place. The surface texture of the film, like the la ...
Watch Now"Inexorable motion as 'seen' through TV, from the gulf between everyday broadcasts, and everyday, every day. Swelling panic. ...
Watch Now"The Saugeen River was named Sauking, 'where it all flows out,' by the Ojibwa in the early 1800s. It runs into Lake Huron, in central Ontario. The place where I know it is twenty miles south of Owen Sound, near Williamsford, where I spent lots of time in m ...
Watch NowA "subversive engagement with documentary convention" centered on the production of Peter Greenaway's film A Zed and Two Noughts. ...
Watch Now"The bus stopped on the Mexican highway, placing us in full view of a young boy, motionless, on the hot pavement. In this film, the incident is revealed through a poetic text, derived from my written journals. The poetry mixes primarily with Mexican street ...
Watch Now"In cinema one extracts the thought from the image; in literature the image from the thought" (Levinson). This reflection was the catalyst for the photographic and narrative strategies of "On Land Over Water." "On Land Over Water..." was born out of an im ...
Watch NowFilm images, stills and sound collected over six years coalesce in The Road Ended at the Beach. Hoffman interrogates both the journey, involving famed American photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank, and the process of its documentation as/in film. ...
Watch Now"Hoffman's film is in the experimental film tradition of the personal diary although in this case a beautifully paced mixture of family photographs and dramatic reconstruction interwoven into a narrative that creates objective distance. ...
Watch NowA hand-processed, darkroom manipulated, walk to the pond with Phil and Astrid, at Film Farm 2013 ...
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