Philip Hoffman Movies

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

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...

“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...

This motion picture photogram was made during a 5 hour plunge into the darkroom; a procession of herbs.

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

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

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

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

An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...