Philip Hoffman Movies

The speculative tale of Canadian outsider musician Lewis and the belated discovery of his 1983 album "L'Amour". A love story composed in myth and...

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...

Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces...

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

1988 short film by Philip Hoffman.

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

A kinetic journey through Expo 67, revisiting Canada’s centennial through the symbols, choreographies, and built environments of the...

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

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

A film by Philip Hoffman that chronicles the final days of his father.

“The bus stopped on the Mexican highway, placing us in full view of a young boy, motionless, on the hot pavement. In this film, the incident is...

Filmed over 2 years (2020–2022), at home and away, Deep 1 is a diaristic meditation, flower/plant processed.

"The Saugeen River was named Sauking, ‘where it all flows out,’ by the Ojibwa in the early 1800s. It runs into Lake Huron, in central...

Processed with conventional photo chemicals and the following flowers: magnolia blossoms, hyacinth, hydrangea, daffodil, rhododendron, pond algae,...

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

"Slaughterhouse has all the ingredients of history but its collage form forces a reading less linear, and more conducive to seeing history anew.."...

The clean 16mm image is processed normally in a lab, but the tinting and toning was done via 'green' processing with flowers. The shooting and hand...

"As passing through/torn formations concerns his mother's family heritage, Kitchener-Berlin revolves around his father's family hometown. The slash...

A hand-processed, darkroom manipulated, walk to the pond with Phil and Astrid, at Film Farm 2013

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...