• Cinema & Media Arts

  • Philip Hoffman

  • Professor

  • Graduate Program in Film (MFA) - Production

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BIOGRAPHY

Philip Hoffman has been honored with more than twenty-five retrospectives of his work. In 2001 the publication Landscape with Shipwreck: First Person Cinema and the Films of Philip Hoffman, was released comprising some 25 essays. In that publication, scholar Martha Rosler  characterized his filmmaking work as follows: “Philip Hoffman is one of the few contemporary filmmakers whose work provides a bridge to the classical themes of death, diaspora, memory, and finally, transcendence.” He has received awards for his work including  San Francisco International Film Festival’s Golden Gate Award and the Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Gus Van Sant Award. In 2016 he received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts and in 2019 his film `vulture’ received the Kodak Cinematic Vision Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival. Since 1994 he has been the Artistic Director of the Independent Imaging Retreat (Film Farm) which celebrated its 25th Anniversary at TIFF Bell Lightbox in 2019.

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