Philip Hoffman
A film artist of memory and association, Philip Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s preeminent diary filmmaker. Born in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, it was his childhood interest in photography that led him to film. He apprenticed in Europe with Peter Greenaway in 1985, where he made ?O,Zoo! : The Making of a Fiction Film (1985), which was nominated for a Canadian Genie Award. Hoffman has been honoured with more than a dozen retrospectives of his work. In 2009 he premiered his feature-length experimental documentary All Fall Down at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film is a reflection on childhood, property, ecology and love. Since 1994, he has been the artistic director of the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm), a one week workshop in artisanal filmmaking in Mount Forest, Ontario. In 2016 Hoffman received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.
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On the Pond
Essential to the making of the film was an examination of still photographs. Stills were used as clues to the past. Clues that would bring order and meaning to significant memories. (Philip Hoffman)
On the Pond
Essential to the making of the film was an examination of still photographs. Stills were used as clues to the past. Clues that would bring order and meaning to significant memories. (Philip Hoffman)
