Philip Hoffman Trailers
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Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Philip Hoffman's filmmaking began with his boyhood interest in photography. As semi-official historian of family life, Hoffman became intrigued by questions of reality in photography and later in cinema. After completing his formal education which includes a Diploma in Media Arts at Sheridan College and a Bachelor of Arts in Literature at Wilfrid Laurier University, Hoffman began working on his films, as well as teaching film, electronic and computer-based media in the Media Arts Program at Sheridan College. Currently Hoffman teaches in the Cinema and Media Arts Department at York University.
Most Popular Philip Hoffman Trailers
Total trailers found: 29
12 September 2009
An 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?
07 October 2023
This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs.
27 June 1988
1988 short film by Philip Hoffman.
11 April 1995
Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths.
01 January 1989
"The Saugeen River was named Sauking, ‘where it all flows out,’ by the Ojibwa in the early 1800s)
29 October 2015
A 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.
01 January 2007
Filmmaker Philip Hoffman and poet Gerry Shikatani combine to make a cine-poem about the making of gardens, films and poems.
01 January 1978
“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.
01 January 1990
"As passing through/torn formations concerns his mother's family heritage, Kitchener-Berlin revolves around his father's family hometown.
15 September 1998
In 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.
02 January 2018
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 Outdated film stock from the 1980s-90s which Peter Mettler recently gave Philip Hoffman accounts for superimpositions.
27 December 2013
A hand-processed, darkroom manipulated, walk to the pond with Phil and Astrid, at Film Farm 2013
01 January 1984
“The bus stopped on the Mexican highway, placing us in full view of a young boy, motionless, on the hot pavement.
22 December 2017
Processed 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 wild garlic seeds (a bowlful).
01 January 2012
Lessons 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.
01 January 1984
"In cinema one extracts the thought from the image; in literature the image from the thought" (Levinson).
01 January 1994
“Inexorable motion as 'seen’ through TV, from the gulf between everyday broadcasts, and everyday, every day.
19 June 1986
A "subversive engagement with documentary convention" centered on the production of Peter Greenaway's film A Zed and Two Noughts.
26 October 2023
Trees, farm fields with animal livestock, ponds and plants, and natural artefacts disappear in the flicker effect of landscape compositions where sweeping branches carve moving structures into the viewer’s memory, and the transformations of living image threads remind us of the inexhaustible visual exuberance of meadows and grain.
31 March 2019
vulture 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.
21 December 2017
The clean 16mm image is processed normally in a lab, but the tinting and toning was done via 'green' processing with flowers.
29 April 2022
The speculative tale of Canadian outsider musician Lewis and the belated discovery of his 1983 album "L'Amour".
01 January 2001
Completed 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.
31 January 2015
A film by Philip Hoffman that chronicles the final days of his father.
15 March 1996
“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.
01 January 1999
Kokoro Is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a gravel pit.
24 March 2023
Filmed over 2 years (2020–2022), at home and away, Deep 1 is a diaristic meditation, flower/plant processed.
01 January 2014
"Slaughterhouse has all the ingredients of history but its collage form forces a reading less linear, and more conducive to seeing history anew.
19 June 1983
Film 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.
