Synopses & Reviews
Philip Hoffman has been making personal documentary films for over 20 years. Straining history through his own fictions, Hoffman's work takes on some formidable themes: memory, family, the making of official and unofficial histories, the ethics of representation and love and loss in the time of AIDS.
As many of the writers in this volume will attest, telling a personal story is dangerous work. Landscape with Shipwreck is an untidy stew of critics and artists -- the well-known and the up-and-coming. Using letters, diary entries, essays, interviews, scripts, drawings and photographs, they trace the work of Philip Hoffman through their personal and artistic worlds, using the technique of the autobiographer to answer the question, how does one write about film?
Synopsis
Essays about leading documentary filmmaker Philip Hoffman.