ANALOGICA SELECTION 15 - 2025

ENDINGS
by Philip Hoffman, Isiah Medina
16mm / 2023 / Canada / 9’

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For creating a layered and complex work that brings to the screen the essential elements of natural life in parallel with the very essence of cinema: Image, Sound (and its absence) Editing.
The apparent simplicity of the image is contrasted with an intricate, associative, rollercoaster-like editing punctuated by the presence and absence of sound. Some of the original 16mm footage is developed by hand using the photochemical properties of plants—oregano, walnuts, and other indigenous plants—that infuse the film with a tactile materiality that reverberates in the viewer and awakens memory at its most intimate level. 
This analog process is reworked through digital interventions by Isiah Medina, whose contribution expands the film’s organic origins, creating a necessary counterpoint. This alchemical operation unfolds so that the images we see on the screen – the endings of plants, the endings of flowers – are the elements that give life to the film itself, dragging the viewer into a hypnotic and visceral experience.

Director, filmmaker and editor Isiah Medina is a Canadian experimental filmmaker from Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Philip Hoffman is a filmmaker and photographer who has gained recognition thanks to his film diaries.  Both artists share interest in analogue film, the consequence of which may be seen in the film they collaborated on, Vulture (2019).