Passing Through/Torn Formations

Hoffman mixes formal filmic concerns with intriguing personal issues. Linking these two strands together by a symphonic structure and a lyrical voice-over, he creates an allusive and engaging text. Hoffman employs a battery of devices including superimpositions, non-synchronous sound and split-imaging to express the narrator/filmmaker's complex attitudes towards his journey back to a Czechoslovakian past that his grandmother had abandoned over half a century ago. (vimeo)