Philip Hoffman Movies

  • 2013
    Walking With Phil

    Walking With Phil

    Walking With Phil

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

    Walking With Phil
  • 1970
    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W

    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W

    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W

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    "A community workshop held by the Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film in Durham, Ontario, engages participants in a group phytogram creation...

    451 Saddler Street 44°10’20.6”N 80°49’27.0”W
  • 2007
    ever present going past

    ever present going past

    ever present going past

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

    ever present going past
  • 2015
    By the Time We Got to Expo

    By the Time We Got to Expo

    By the Time We Got to Expo

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

    By the Time We Got to Expo
  • 2012
    Lessons in Process

    Lessons in Process

    Lessons in Process

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    Lessons in Process is an experimental documentary about a filmmaking workshop given by Canadian filmmaker/teacher Phil Hoffman, at the famed...

    Lessons in Process
  • 1986
    ?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)

    ?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)

    ?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)

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    A "subversive engagement with documentary convention" centered on the production of Peter Greenaway's film A Zed and Two Noughts.

    ?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)
  • 1983
    The Road Ended at the Beach

    The Road Ended at the Beach

    The Road Ended at the Beach

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

    The Road Ended at the Beach
  • 2001
    What these ashes wanted

    What these ashes wanted

    What these ashes wanted

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

    What these ashes wanted
  • 1999
    Kokoro Is for Heart

    Kokoro Is for Heart

    Kokoro Is for Heart

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    Kokoro Is for Heart features poet Gerry Shikatani and explores the relationships surrounding language, image and sound, set to the backdrop of a...

    Kokoro Is for Heart
  • 1994
    Technilogic Ordering

    Technilogic Ordering

    Technilogic Ordering

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

    Technilogic Ordering