Vulture Aesthetics by Hoffman (Berlin 2017)
All posts by Phil Hoffman
ending series (2020-2022)
ending series 1-4 (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.’
Screenings (ending series): Shapeshifter Cinema, Oakland (endings) 2024 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver (endings) 2024 Adhoc, Innis College Toronto, (endings) 2024 La Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) 2023, Cuba Strangloscope Festival, Brasil (endings)2023 Images Festival, Toronto (ending 2) 2021 Crossroads, San Francisco Cinematheque (ending 2) 2021 Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Facinations, (ending 2) 2020
ending 2 HDV/Orig 16mm, sil.,3:51 min., 2020 (co-maker Isiah Medina)
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)
`Somewhere Between…’ Streaming on 1000SunsCinema at Media CIty December (2020)
workshops, info, recipes, videos, photos…
Photos: Saugeen Takes on Film Workshops 2018 & 2019 here
Excerpts from Saugeen Takes On Film Workshop here
Filmmakers: Kelsey Diamond, Sharon Isaac, Natalka Pucan, Jennifer Kewageshig, Emily Kewageshig, Taylor Cameron
`Green’ Developing Process for 3378 film
(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico Festival & Film Farm On the Road 2018
Philip Hoffman has been developing a hands-on, artisanal approach to filmmaking for more than 20 years in Canada at his summer workshop, the `Independent Imaging Retreat’ or `Film Farm’. Now this process-oriented workshop comes to the UK with a 2-day intensive project, ‘the Lux Film Farm’ hosted by Lux and the Double Negative Dark Room in proximity to the Hackney Marshes in East London.
Read more at LUX’s site for PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: LUX FILM FARM A Hand Processing Film Workshop with Philip Hoffman, 20-21 June 2015
Letters from Stan Brakhage (1988, 1992)
As The Mind Tracks Shape, an interview by Jem Noble – (Luma 2017)
Mike Hoolboom reviews Phil Hoffman’s Aged (2014)
“Who has not marveled at the triumph of slow motion? At the end of every sporting event the decisive moments of the past hours float past in a dreamy montage, everything slowed to a crawl, as if it had occurred days, even years ago, part of a past that seems already out of reach, filled with bygone charms. The pages of Vimeo and YouTube have delivered us to a global tidal wave of slow motion magics, where heroines of time are caught in the full thrall of their secret erotic life, their faces filled with hand grenade smiles and arms stretch beyond the horizon with an inflated heroism. In his too familiar essay, Walter Benjamin wrote about slow motion as a way to defeat capitalism. He imagined that hidden within our everyday gestures were a cornucopia of unseen resistances, that our bodies performed a micro-politics of nay saying that the camera would at last reveal. But the digital revolution appears to have unveiled these once hidden intervals as another area of over exposure, bent beneath the first law of digital culture: that everything should be visible, bright, clear, tagged, identifiable. The surveillance state insists: there is no outside.”
