Philip Hoffman Movies

  • 2018
    Inner circle

    Inner circle

    Inner circle

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    The clean 16mm image is processed normally in a lab. Outdated film stock from the 1980s-90s which Peter Mettler recently gave Philip Hoffman accounts...

    Inner circle
  • 2007
    ever present going past

    ever present going past

    ever present going past

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    Filmmaker Philip Hoffman and poet Gerry Shikatani combine to make a cine-poem about the making of gardens, films and poems. Excerpts from...

    ever present going past
  • 1970
    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W

    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W

    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W

    01970HD

    "A community workshop held by the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham, Ontario, engages participants in a group phytogram creation...

    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W
  • 1984
    On Land Over Water (Six Stories)

    On Land Over Water (Six Stories)

    On Land Over Water (Six Stories)

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    "In cinema one extracts the thought from the image; in literature the image from the thought" (Levinson). This reflection was the catalyst for the...

    On Land Over Water (Six Stories)
  • 2001
    What these ashes wanted

    What these ashes wanted

    What these ashes wanted

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    Completed in 2001, what these ashes wanted—which combines hand-processed film, video diaries, found sound, text and narration—is a ritual...

    What these ashes wanted
  • 1999
    Kokoro Is for Heart

    Kokoro Is for Heart

    Kokoro Is for Heart

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    Kokoro Is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a...

    Kokoro Is for Heart
  • 1994
    Technilogic Ordering

    Technilogic Ordering

    Technilogic Ordering

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    “Inexorable motion as 'seen’ through TV, from the gulf between everyday broadcasts, and everyday, every day. Swelling panic.” (PH)

    Technilogic Ordering
  • 1978
    On the Pond

    On the Pond

    On the Pond

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    “Hoffman’s film is in the experimental film tradition of the personal diary although in this case a beautifully paced mixture of family...

    On the Pond
  • 1983
    The Road Ended at the Beach

    The Road Ended at the Beach

    The Road Ended at the Beach

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    Film images, stills and sound collected over six years coalesce in The Road Ended at the Beach. Hoffman interrogates both the journey, involving...

    The Road Ended at the Beach