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)
| Director | Philip Hoffman |
| Actor | Aaditya Aggarwal |
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Revisiting still photographs from his family album, Phillip Hoffman’s black-and-white short reconsiders the format of bildungsroman. At one point, the artist's ambiguous revisitation—and seamlessly oneiric recreation—of an athletic Northern boyhood frames a stunning slow-motion sequence restaging his youth, playing hockey on a frozen pond, while his family dog, an eager German Shepherd, inches close by, pawing the icy pond and following his every move. At once suspenseful and melancholic in its gradual pacing, On the Pond inertly meditates on the interstices of memory, recollection, adolescence and solitude.
Aaditya Aggarwal
Programs & Collections Coordinator, CFMDC
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Français
10 mn
Language: Français
Subtitles: Français -
English
10 mn
Language: English
Subtitles: English
- Année 1978
- Pays Canada
- Durée 10
- Producteur Philip Hoffman
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court A reflection on memories through the medium of photography.
Revisiting still photographs from his family album, Phillip Hoffman’s black-and-white short reconsiders the format of bildungsroman. At one point, the artist's ambiguous revisitation—and seamlessly oneiric recreation—of an athletic Northern boyhood frames a stunning slow-motion sequence restaging his youth, playing hockey on a frozen pond, while his family dog, an eager German Shepherd, inches close by, pawing the icy pond and following his every move. At once suspenseful and melancholic in its gradual pacing, On the Pond inertly meditates on the interstices of memory, recollection, adolescence and solitude.
Aaditya Aggarwal
Programs & Collections Coordinator, CFMDC
-
Français
Duration: 10 minutesLanguage: Français
Subtitles: Français10 mn -
English
Duration: 10 minutesLanguage: English
Subtitles: English10 mn
- Année 1978
- Pays Canada
- Durée 10
- Producteur Philip Hoffman
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French, English
- Résumé court A reflection on memories through the medium of photography.
