Saturday, October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
WHAMMY!, Los Angeles
Join LA Filmforum and TAPE Los Angeles as we all celebrate Film Farm coming through Los Angeles to celebrate their 31st year of existence and integral contribution to the experimental film world! ********For 31 years, between the greenery and the rivers near Mount Forest (Ontario, Canada), a unique retreat for filmmakers takes place at the ****Film Farm****, conducted by **Philip Hoffman** and a dedicated staff of innovative film artists *(Rob Butterworth, Christine Harrison, Deirdre Logue, Scott Miller Berry and Terra Jean Long*). Founded in 1994 as the *Independent Imaging Retreat*, Film Farm is an artist-driven, intensive, week-long analogue filmmaking workshop and is a central part of Canada’s experimental film scene. The Film Farm has initiated and enhanced the work of local, national and international filmmakers and has expanded the traditions of experimental filmmaking in Canada and beyond. The workshop concentrates on hand-processing of 16mm film, most recently (since 2008) working with cafenol and various botanical developing processes. Works of the Film Farm are influenced by the methodology of **Process Cinema**, developed over many years through Hoffman’s own filmmaking and the Process Cinema course he has taught since 2007 at *York University.* In Process Cinema, artists replace the usual protocol of the script (planning), with a direct engagement with the world through the hand-cranked Bolex camera and hand-made analogue filmmaking processes. ## 2 part program: The first part of the program presents earlier works using methods of hand -processing celluloid in buckets, utilizing conventional photo chemistry, tinting with dyes and using photo and filmmaking techniques like solarisation, in-camera superimposition, pixilation, and optical printing for expression. ******The later films in the program reflects ecologically friendly processing practices, using local flowers and plants to develop and tint the films. As well in the second part of the program, *Film Farm-Saugeen First Nation* collaboration is represented. *The Saugeen Takes on Film* project has been conceptionalised by Adrian Kahgee, Debbie Ebanks Schlums and Phil Hoffman since 2018, in conjunction with artists, storytellers, knowledge keepers and youth from the Saugeen community. As well the program includes two films, by Hoffman, both shot and edited at the Film Farm: *Kokoro is for Heart* (1999) made in collaboration with Japanese-Canadian poet Gerry Shikatani and a recent film by Hoffman and Isiah Medina, partially hand-processed with oregano, *endings* (2024), which will close out the program. At **Film Farm*,* participants are asked not to come with an idea; that they will find it during their stay. Having now produced almost 300 participants (of whom almost two-thirds are women) and over 100 completed works, the Film Farm has helped sustain a spirit of discovery and risk in contemporary experimental filmmaking. For many of the participants of *Film Farm,* the workshop has been a catalyst as they embarked on a practice of analogue artist-filmmaking. *Run time: 64:20* ## 7:30 DOORS ## 8 PM SCREENING ## ## LA Filmforum members get free admission, please inquire at the door. *Los Angeles Filmforum is the city’s longest-running organization dedicated to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries, video art, and experimental animation.* *Copresented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.*