Philip Hoffman (filmmaker) explained

Philip Hoffman
Birth Date:December 10, 1955
Birth Place:Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Awards:Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2016)

Philip Hoffman (born December 10, 1955) is a Canadian experimental filmmaker and a member of the faculty of York University.[1]

Life and career

Hoffman was born December 10, 1955, in Kitchener, Ontario, but lived in Waterloo, Ontario during his childhood and most of his teen years. He studied at Sheridan College, where he received a diploma in media arts in 1979, and Wilfrid Laurier University, where he received a B.A. in English literature in 1987. While a student at Sheridan College he became associated with a group of filmmakers known as the Escarpment School,[2] [3] other members of which included Richard Kerr[4] and Mike Hoolboom.[1]

In 1986 he became an instructor at Sheridan College. In 1994, he started operating a summer film workshop, the Film Farm Retreat,[5] [6] at Mount Forest, Ontario, initially with support from Sheridan College. In 1999 he joined the York University Film and Video Department as a faculty member. He also has been a visiting professor at the University of Helsinki and University of South Florida.[7]

Hoffman has been described as "filmmaker of memory and association" whose "highly personal" work blends fiction and documentary and "contests the claim to the truth" that characterizes conventional documentary film.[8] As Martha Rosler maintains Hoffman's work "provides a bridge to the classical themes of death, diaspora, memory, and finally, transcendence.[9] Of Hoffman's 1988 film "passing through/torn formations, Stan Brakhage said the film "accomplishes a multi-faceted experience for the viewer—it is a poetic document of Family, for instance—but Philip Hoffman's editing throughout is true to thought process, tracks visual theme as the mind tracks shape, makes melody of noise and words as the mind recalls sound."[10]

Hoffman has been honoured with more than 25 retrospectives and spotlights of his work. His 2001 film, 'What these ashes wanted', received the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Telefilm Canada Award at the Images Festival in Toronto, and the Gus Van Sant Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival.[11]

In 2001 the publication Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman,[12] was released comprising some 25 essays.[13] The Canadian Film Institute presented a retrospective showing of his works in Ottawa in March and April 2008. A book, entitled Rivers of Time[14] and consisting of an interview with Hoffman, "essays and reflections" on the filmmaker and his work, and images from his films, was issued to coincide with the retrospective.[15]

Since 1994 Hoffman has been the artistic director of the Independent Imaging Retreat (aka Film Farm) which is celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019.[16] with screenings and an installation at Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox.[17]

In 2016, Hoffman was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts[18] [19] as denoted in the Record (Waterloo Region),[20] and in 2019 Hoffman's film `vulture', which utilized `green' film developing techniques (partly processed using plants and flowers) was awarded the Kodak Cinematic Award from the Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA[21] [22] and the Fugas Jury Award for Best International Film (over 45 minutes), at Documenta Madrid in Spain in 2020.[23]

Works

Other works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Philip Hoffman . Canadian Film Encyclopedia . May 7, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110205034104/http://tiff.net/CANADIANFILMENCYCLOPEDIA/content/bios/philip-hoffman . February 5, 2011 . dead .
  2. Web site: The Road Ended at the Beach, and other legends: Parsing the Escarpment School. Brett Kashmere curator. November 8, 2010. May 11, 2011.
  3. Web site: The Road Ended at the Beach, and other legends: Parsing the Escarpment School. Winnipeg Film Group. November 6, 2010. November 7, 2010.
  4. Web site: Kerr, Richard | l'Encyclopédie Canadienne.
  5. Web site: The Harvest of Philip Hoffman – Point of View Magazine . povmagazine.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190531200528/http://povmagazine.com/articles/view/the-harvest-of-philip-hoffman . May 31, 2019.
  6. Web site: Histories, Photos & FIlms | Philip Hoffman.
  7. Web site: Biography | Philip Hoffman.
  8. Web site: Philip Hoffman | Mike Hoolboom.
  9. Web site: Sheffield Fringe.
  10. Web site: Passing through / Torn formations | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.
  11. Web site: Philip Hoffman-What these ashes wanted (2001). Experimental Cinema. June 5, 2019. June 19, 2019.
  12. Web site: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman. Toronto International Film Festival Film Reference Library. June 5, 2015. June 19, 2019.
  13. Web site: Passing Through: A Phillip Hoffman Retrospective. San Francisco Cinematheque. April 4, 2004. April 4, 2004.
  14. Web site: Rivers of Time . Canadian Film Institute . May 9, 2008.
  15. Web site: ON Philip Hoffman . Canadian Film Institute . May 9, 2012.
  16. News: The Not So Secret Film Farm. The Globe and Mail. July 9, 2019. July 11, 2019. James. Cayley.
  17. Web site: "From Film Lab to Film Farm" by Kim Knowles . philiphoffman.ca . October 1, 2019. June 25, 2019.
  18. Web site: York Professor Philip Hoffman named a Governor General's Award laureate. York University YFile. March 11, 2016. April 28, 2016.
  19. News: Eclectic Canadian artists honoured by Governor-General's Awards. The Globe and Mail. March 7, 2016. April 28, 2016. Adams. James.
  20. Web site: Waterloo-Born Filmmaker Receives the Governor General's Award . March 10, 2016 . March 10, 2016.
  21. Web site: Eye for Film.
  22. Web site: Off the Grid: Denis Côté's Wilcox . January 13, 2020 . Cinema Scope . May 8, 2021.
  23. Web site: Awards Documenta Madrid 2020.
  24. https://books.google.com/books?id=m4Y_OgckDmIC Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film – Google Books (pg.100)
  25. https://re-voir.com/shop/en/cfmdc/734-spotlight-series-philip-hoffman.html Spotlight Series : Philip Hoffman – RE:VOIR
  26. Web site: Café Ex: The Films of Philip Hoffman. Canadian Film Institute. April 28, 2016.
  27. Web site: The Gift of Dying with Philip Hoffman. No more potlucks. April 28, 2016.

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