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XV Festival Internacional de Cine Documental
Synopsis
The film begins with a shot of the painting The Flood Gate, done by Homer Watson between 1900 and 1901. The 20th century, the last to see humans as a part of nature? The answer given by vulture is a no. A series of zoom-ins onto the relationship between the different animals living on a farm, human and non-human. The climate advances over them, the seasons and work they do together. The film was filmed and processed between 2016 and 2018, at times using traditional film developing and at others using alternative elements, such as flowers and salts, which make the image come alive as the minutes go by. (LS)
Festivals
-Ann Arbor Film Festival - Kodak Cinematic Award - 2019
-Docpoint Helsinki - Environemntal Certificate - 2020
-Edinburgh Int. Film Fest - 2019
-DocLisboa Film Fest - 2019
-Sheffield Doc Fest - 2020
Biografía del director
Philip Hoffman
"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." (Martha Rosler)
He has been honored with more than a dozen 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. He has received numerous awards including the 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 is celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 2019-20.
Credits
Language
English - Subtitles in spanish
Director
Philip Hoffman
Screenplay
Philip Hoffman
Cinematography
Philip Hoffman
Editing
Isiah Medina, Philip Hoffman
Sound
Luca Santilli, Clint Enns, Isaiah Medina
Production
Philip Hoffman
Music
Kennedy
Contact
hoffmanphilm@gmail.com
AVAILABLE ON FILMIN
From 10 to 20 December
