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Item Open Access All That is Solid: A Celluloid Exploration of Brutalist Architecture(2015-08-28) Kolcze, Eva; Hoffman, PhilipAll That Is Solid is an experimental film that investigates Brutalist architecture through the decayed surface of black and white celluloid. The film features three locations: Robarts Library, The University of Toronto Scarborough campus (UTSC) and the Ross building at York University. All are prominent examples of Brutalist architecture on university campuses. Footage of the buildings has been degraded using photochemical processes that result in unique patterns of decay. The decay processes are used to draw material and aesthetic connections between concrete and celluloid. By distressing and dissolving images of massive buildings, the film explores how time breaks down all materials, even solid concrete. The film also explores the shifting reactions and responses to the buildings, from their initial praise by the architectural community as cutting edge and futuristic, to the intense public backlash that followed shortly after they were built.Item Open Access In Still Time(2016-09-20) Supnet, Leslie; Hoffman, Philip JIn Still Time is an experimental animation that investigates the catastrophic image and spectacle through direct animation of still images onto 16mm film. The film uses still images found on the internet from the current Syrian civil war; these were laser printed directly onto the film, simultaneously abstracting these images and re-animating them. These images are juxtaposed with audio from news sources, interviews and YouTube videos posted by Syrian civilians, activists and journalists on the ground of different events that have taken place during the crisis. Through clues of shape, line, colour, and sound these abstracted images of catastrophe attempt to facilitate questions about the moral imperative to look, our ability or inability to bear witness to unthinkable human suffering and our complicity in the violence documented in the image. What are the limits of the catastrophic image? How can trauma and the unthinkable ever be properly represented? How do we give meaning to an event that stops and disrupts time?Item Open Access Return(2015-12-16) Rotenberg, Aaron Gershon; Longfellow, BrendaReturn is an experimental documentary framing a search for home amidst displacement. Through personal travel footage, family interviews, archival photography and collected clips from Palestine/Israel, the work interrogates how movement frames the idea of home. Through unearthing the cycles of displacement, the film intends to bring up the question of “What remains outside the frame?” when we conceive of home. The work contains five meditations on home including (1) a reflection on early European photography in Palestine, (2) Travel footage from a visit to the filmmaker's former homes in Palestine/Israel, (3) a family interview, (4) a prayer for seeing beyond walls and (5) a journey to a park built on the ruins of destroyed Palestinian villages. Return is an exploration of margins and frames in an attempt to get to a broader understanding of the boundaries “home”.