FLOWERS #3 (KISSED BY THE SUN)
Flowers #3 (Kissed by the Sun) 10 min., 35mm photogram to HDV, Sil., 2023. By Philip Hoffman in collaboration with Alexander Granger and Jason O’Hara
These motion picture photograms were initiated through a five hour plunge into the darkroom; remembering the Galician celebration of flowers on the road in Baiona, near Vigo in 2019, here too we made a floral carpet of photograms. –P.Hoffman
A Procession of herbs “emerge in all their structures, colors and epidermis. The motion picture itself becomes a plant which delicately stretches petioles and petals.” – Séance #3-Sentir Comme une Plante, Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris.
Deep 1
Deep 1 (14:30, 2023)
Filmed over 2 years (2020-2022), at home and away, Deep 1 is a diaristic meditation, flower/plant processed and decayed with hyacinth and lichen extract. Winged and four legged animals, both wild and domestic, traverse the frame marked by a hand-made practice. Filmed in Mount Forest, Ontario and Dawson City, Yukon.
*available on digital & on 35mm
Opening audio passage from a recording with mentor/friend Rup Chand (Ann Arbor 1979). He recites the “Gayatri Mantra”:
Om Bhur bhuvah svah Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo Devasya dheemahi Dheeyo yonah prachodayaat — The Rigveda (
10:16:3)
“Oh manifest and unmanifest, wave and ray of breath, red lotus of insight, transfix us from eye to navel to throat, under canopy of stars spring from soil in an unbroken arc of light that we might immerse ourselves until lit from within like the sun itself.” (translation from Sanskrit by Ravi Shankar)
About looking at things; envisioning a space “where we are not separated from other things.” – R.H. Blyth
“across the window, birds and beasts look unaware of their decay” –Ph
Deep 1 Ribalta Film Fest Review
Screenings of Deep 1:
Ann Arbor Film Festival USA, 2023 – Jury Award
Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Italy 2023
(S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico, Spain 2023
Flowers # 1
Flowers # 1 (3:18, 2022) By Philip Hoffman & Alexander Granger
This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs. Séance #3 – Sentir Comme Une Plante
ending series
ending series (2020-2022)
The 16mm film was shot and partly hand-processed with plants and flowers by Hoffman, and digitally edited by Isiah Medina. ` 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.’ `ending 2′ at Crossroads
ending 1 HDV/Orig 16mm, sound, 4:36 min., 2022 (co-maker Isiah Medina)
ending 3 HDV/Orig 16mm, sil., 3:28 min., 2022 (co-maker Isiah Medina)
ending 4 HDV/Orig 16mm, sil.,2:33 min., 2022 (co-maker Isiah Medina)
endings HDV/Orig 16mm, sound,13:17 min., 2022 (co-maker Isiah Medina)
ending 2 HDV/Orig 16mm, sil.,3:51 min., 2020 (co-maker Isiah Medina)
vulture HDV/orig 16mm, 57min., 2019 Kim Knowles on `vulture’
By The Time We Got To Expo
HDV/orig 16mm & S8, 9 min., 2015 (co-maker Eva Kolzce)
AGED
HDV/orig 16mm, dv & vhs, 45 min., 2014
Slaughterhouse
HDV/orig 16mm, 15 min., 2014
Racing Home
Interactive film, HDV/orig 16mm, S8, dv, vhs. Using Korsakow software, from an unfinished film by Marian McMahon, indeterminate length, 2014 (co-maker Marian McMahon)
Lessons in Process
HDV/orig16mm & dv, 30 min., 2012
All Fall Down
HDCAM/orig 16mm S8 & dv, 94 min., 2009
ever present going past
HDV/orig on 16mm s8 & dv, 7 min., 2007
What these ashes wanted
16mm, 55 min., 2001
Opening Series 4
16mm, 10 min., 2000
Kokoro is for Heart
16mm, 7 min., 1999
Destroying Angel
16mm/orig 16mm & s8, 32 min., 1998 (co-maker Wayne Salazar)
Chimera
16mm/orig s8, 15 min., 1996
Sweep
16mm/orig 16mm & s8, 30 min., 1995 (co-maker Sami van Ingen)
Opening Series 3
16mm, 7 min., 1995 (co-maker, Gerry Shikatani)
Technilogic Ordering
16mm/ orig s-vhs, 30 min., 1994
Opening Series 2
16mm/orig s8, 7 min., 1993
Opening Series 1
16mm/orig s8,10 min., 1992
Kitchener-Berlin
16mm/orig 16mm & 8mm 34 min., 1990
river
16mm/orig 16mm & 1/2″ video, 15 min., 1979/89
passing through / torn formations
16mm/orig 16mm & 1/2″ video, 43 min., 1988
?O,Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)
16mm/orig 16mm & 8mm, 23 min., 1986
Somewhere Between Jalostotitlan & Encarnacion
16mm, 6 min., 1984
The Road Ended at the Beach
16mm/orig 16mm & s8, 33 min., 1983
On The Pond
16mm, 9 min., 1978
Installations, Interactive Films & Music Videos
Racing Home. Interactive film, HDV, using Korsakow software, from an unfinished film by Marian McMahon, indeterminate length. Produced through ARC (Adventures in Research-Creation) at Concordia University, 2014. Racing Home
The Dialogic Illuminations of Marian McMahon. Installation, Border Cultures, Windsor Art Gallery, 2014. Exhibition
Slaughterhouse. Installation, Landslide: Possible Futures, Markham Museum, 2013. Installation Excerpt
Walk That Way
DV, Music Video/Music by Gigi Minor – Symphony Barn, Durham, 8 min., 2005
Chimerae
Beta SP and 16mm, Multi Screen Presentation, AVEK, Helsinki, 50 min., 1997
Opening Series
Film Performance with poet Gerry Shikatani, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, 1996
Chimerae
Beta SP, 17 min., 1996
Ahead of the Rest
S VHS, Installation at Union Station, Public Access, Toronto, 10 min., 1995
Technilogic Ordering
S VHS, Video Installation, Bio Illusion, Helsinki, 52 min., 1992