Deep 1

Filmed over 2 years (2020-2022), at home and away, Deep 1 is a diaristic meditation, flower/plant processed and decayed with hyacinth and lichen extract. Winged and four legged animals, both wild and domestic, traverse the frame marked by a hand-made practice. Filmed from 2020 – 2022, processed and decayed with hyacinth & lichen extract, the film is built on a sustainable practice: images and the imaging making process evolve out of “a complex material engagement with an eco-system that draws out the expressive possibilities of living things beyond conventional forms of representation”. Kim Knowles on Hoffman’s practice – Jury Award : Ann Arbor Film Festival 2023 Opening audio passage from a recording with mentor/friend Rup Chand (Ann Arbor 1979). He recites the “Gayatri Mantra”: Om Bhur bhuvah svah Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo Devasya dheemahi Dheeyo yonah prachodayaat — The Rigveda (10:15:3) “Oh manifest and unmanifest, wave and ray of breath, red lotus of insight, transfix us from eye to navel to throat, under canopy of stars spring from soil in an unbroken arc of light that we might immerse ourselves until lit from within like the sun itself.” (translation from Sanskrit by Ravi Shankar) Deep 1 was filmed over 2 years (2020-2022) and flower/plant processed and decayed with hyacinth and lichen extract. A diaristic meditation A practice About looking at things; envisioning a space where we are not separated from other things. Filmed at my farm near Mount Forest and in the Yukon. “across the window, birds and beasts look unaware of their decay” –Ph