1. 'The Harvest of Philip Hoffman' by Janis Cole (POV ISSUE 58 SUMMER 2005)   For 10 years, filmmaker and York University professor Philip Hoffman has been teaching filmmaking, from shooting to processing, at his summer farm. Janis Cole provides a colourful look at the workings of this wonderful project. (View Article Online)     2. 'Women, Nature and Chemistry: Hand-Processed Films from The Independent Imaging Workshop' by Janine Marchessault   The representation of nature has been a central and longstanding aesthetic preoccupation in Canadian art and iconography. Nowhere is this more in evidence than in a series of films that have emerged from Philip Hoffman's Hand Processing Film workshop located on a forty acre farm in Southern Ontario. Since 1994, the films coming out of this summer retreat have been remarkable in terms of the consistency of their themes and innovative aesthetic approaches. One finds here a new generation of women experimental filmmakers exploring the boundaries between identity, film, chemistry and nature. (Download article in MS Word)     3. Films and Fairy Dust by Cara Morton   It started with this dream: I am surrounded by lowing cattle. The moon is pregnant, promising, full. The air is sweet and warm and I am on my back, floating in the grass, while Maya Deren pulls a tiny key from her mouth again and again, while Maya Deren pulls a tiny key from her mouth again and again, while Maya Deren ... Kazaam! Hang on a second ... this isn't a dream at all. This is real. I am on a filmmaking retreat taught by Phil Hoffman on his enchanted property just outside Mount Forest, two blessed hours from Toronto. (Download article in MS Word) 4. The Independent Imaging Retreat by Chris Gehman     The Independent Imaging Retreat, now in its tenth year, was founded by Canadian filmmakers Philip Hoffman and Marian McMahon to encourage a direct, hands-on approach to filmmaking that is far removed from the costly, hierarchical and inaccessible industrial model, with its intensive division of labour into many specialized craft areas. Each summer it brings to Mount Forest, Ontario, a small group of interested filmmakers - some novices and some highly experienced - for an intensive week of shooting, processing, watching and editing, most of the action taking place in and around an old barn on Hoffman's property. (View Article Online)                 The Independent Imaging Retreat acknowledges the generous support of: