ending series 1-4 (2020-2024)The 16mm film was shot and partly hand-processed with plants and flowers by Hoffman, and digitally edited by Isiah Medina.

endings (2023, 9 min., Canada) by Philip Hoffman and Isiah Medina

`For creating a layered and complex work that brings to the screen the essential elements of natural life in parallel with the very essence of cinema: Image, Sound (and its absence) Editing. The apparent simplicity of the image is contrasted with an intricate, associative, rollercoaster-like editing punctuated by the presence and absence of sound.  Some of the original 16mm footage is developed by hand using the photochemical properties of plants—oregano, walnuts, and other indigenous plants—that infuse the film with a tactile materiality that reverberates in the viewer and awakens memory at its most intimate level. This analog process is reworked through digital interventions by Isiah Medina, whose contribution expands the film’s organic origins, creating a necessary counterpoint. This alchemical operation unfolds so that the images we see on the screen – the endings of plants, the endings of flowers – are the elements that give life to the film itself, dragging the viewer into a hypnotic and visceral experience.’ – Ribalta Film Festival, Italy 2025 Award: Best Director(s)

` 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.’                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Ribalta Film Festival, Italy 2025  (Award, Best Director(s)                          Prismatic Ground, NY 2025                                                                      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 Series:

endings                                                                                                                      HDV/Orig 16mm, sound,9:00 min., 2024                                                            (co-maker Isiah Medina)

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)