AGED is a 45 minute experimental documentary about the relationship between aging and corporeal perception. From 2005 -2011, along with my sisters, I was a caregiver for my father, during his swift movement into old age. Over this period I maintained a practice of diaristic sketching using film, video and sound, and through this process I collected a significant archive of intimate moments, at the summer cottage, where my father chose to die. This raw material has been worked and reworked through various modes of digital and filmic manipulation. Ultimately AGED uncovers the common process of aging, the cinematic elements acting as a corollary for changes in human perception with a view to exceptional vision. (PH)

"Hoffman's Aged [is] the most touching piece in this year's fest. Hoffman assembled this 45-minute work from footage he shot over six years while tending to his infirm father. Using both analog and digital manipulation techniques, he makes the images appear otherworldly while maintaining a heartrending intimacy with his subjects." - Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader (Onion City Film Festival)

Production format: 16mm, HDV