Of Memory and Association: The essay films of Philip Hoffman

Of Memory and Association: The essay films of Philip Hoffman
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

Tickets: Free (students), $5 (SCA staff/faculty), $10 (general)

Philip Hoffman, Canada's pre-eminent diary filmmaker and founder of the analog summer Film Farm Retreat, will be making a rare visit to Vancouver to screen his films along with a special live performance with Toronto-based poet Gerry Shikatani. Hoffman will be in attendance for the event, and a discussion with filmmaker Terra Long will follow the screening.

Film program:

Chimera (15 min., orig s8 to 16mm optical printed to HDV, Sd., 1995)

By The Time We Got To Expo (9 min., orig S8/16mm to HDV, Sd., 2015. with Eva Kolcze)

Kokoro is for Heart (7 min., orig 16mm optical printed, Sd., 1999 with poet Gerry Shikatani)

endings (9:30 min., orig 16mm, Sil.&Sd., 2024. with Isiah Medina)

Flowers #3 (Kissed by the Sun) (10 min., orig 35mm photogram to HDV, Sil., 2024)

Deep 1 (15 min, orig 16mm flower processed (hyacinth & lichen), Sd & Sil., 2023)

Biographies

Philip Hoffman has been making artist film for more than 40 years. His recent work explores plant processing of motion picture film. vulture (2019) received the Kodak Cinematic Award from Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Fugas Award at Documenta Madrid. Deep 1 received a Jury Award at Ann Arbor. He has been honored with more than a dozen retrospectives of his work, and the publication Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman, comprising some 25 essays by academics and artists. In 2016 Hoffman was awarded the Governor General Award in Media Arts. He currently teaches Process Cinema in York University's MFA in Cinema and Media Arts. philiphoffman.ca

Gerry Shikatani is a poet, food critic, and interdisciplinary artist. Born and raised in Toronto, he has lived in Montreal and Paris, France, and travelled extensively in Europe and more recently Japan. His literary works include AQUEDUCT: poems and texts from Europe, and co-editing Paper Doors (1981), an anthology of Japanese Canadian poetry, with David Aylward, an important text in bringing Asian Canadian writers to the notice of academics and the general Canadian public.

Terra Long is a filmmaker whose work circles cultural, personal, and (un)natural histories embedded within landscape. Her practice is collaborative, with a commitment to deep listening and material explorations of celluloid. She is a member of the Independent Imaging Retreat Collective (The Film Farm) and F4A Collective, where she shares handmade filmmaking techniques. Her work has been shown in festivals including, Toronto International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, Images Festival, Ann Arbor, CPH: DOX, International Film Festival Rotterdam, EXiS, and the Edinburgh International Film Festivalamong others. Her work is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center. She studied at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia Universityand received her MFA from York University. terralong.ca

Please be advised:

Strobe Lighting effects will be present in some of these films

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings Street,, Vancouver, Canada