Announcing the Philip Hoffman Digital Collection

Posted September 8th, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce the acquisition of 20+ digital files by longtime artist member Philip Hoffman. With works spanning from 1978 to 2024, this new deposit represents nearly the entire output of Hoffman’s filmmaking career. Canyon’s Philip Hoffman Digital Collection now includes 26 films in all, from early 16mm film diaries such as On the Pond (1978) and The Road Ended at the Beach (1983); to mid-career personal documentaries such as Destroying Angel (1998, with Wayne Salazar) and What These Ashes Wanted (2001); to more recent handcrafted collaborations like By The Time We Got To Expo (2015, with Eva Kolcze) and Flowers #1 (2022, with Alexander Granger).

For a complete listing of the Philip Hoffman films in distribution at Canyon, see:
https://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=156

“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, Artist and Professor of Media and Critical Studies at Rutgers University

“Philip Hoffman has long been recognized as Canada’s pre-eminent diary filmmaker. For over thirty-five years he has been straining history through personal fictions, using the material of his life to deconstruct the Griersonian legacy of documentary practice.”

— Karyn Sandlos, Professor of Art Education, School of the Art Institute of Chicago