BY THE TIME WE GOT TO EXPO

A collaboration with Philip Hoffman, 9:05 min, 16mm, super 8mm to HD, 2015

A kinetic journey through Expo 67, revisiting Canada’s centennial through the symbols, choreographies, and built environments of the World’s Fair and its construction of (inter)nationalism. Reworking archival footage, By the Time We Got to Expo creates a vibrant collision of textures and forms in order to explore the surfaces, ideologies, and implications of the ‘meeting place’ that was Expo 67. ( written by Zoë Heyn-Jones)

Images 1 and 6 by Richard-Max Tremblay

Exhibitions
2017 Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), In Search of Expo, curated by M.K Gagnon and L. Johnstone, QC
2016 National Gallery of Canada, The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, Ottawa, ON

Screenings
2024 Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, By the Time We Got to Expo, Dresden, Germany
2024 AD HOC 54: Philip Hoffman: Collaborations and Meditations, By the Time We Got to Expo, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2022 Archivio Aperto, By The Time We Got To Expo, Bologna, Italy
2019 Films for the Fair: The World’s Fair and Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, NY
2017 Independent Filmmakers Co-op of Ottawa, North of 49 Screening, Ottawa, ON
2017 National Gallery of Art, Saluting Canada at 150 program, Washington, DC
2017 (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña, Spain
2017 $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB
2017 Factory Theatre, part of the Hand-Processed & Experimental Program, Hamilton, ON
2017 Alchemy Film Festival, part of the Rhythms Crackle Program, Hawick, Scotland
2016 Bienal de la Imagen an Movimiento, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 In/Future Festival at Ontario Place, curated by Janine Marchessault, Toronto, ON
2016 Images Festival, This Illuminated World Program, Toronto, ON
2016 Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, AGX Film Collective, Waltham, MA
2016 Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Festival International Du Films Sur L'Art, Montreal, QC
2016 Art Court Theatre / Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa, ON
2016 DocPoint, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Café Ex - The Films of Philip Hoffman, Ottawa, ON
2015 Echo Park Film Centre, Northern Light: New Experimental Works, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
2015 Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
2015 Festival Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, QC
2015 Pleasuredome New Toronto Works, Toronto, ON
2015 Lux, The Film Farm Lux 20th Anniversary Show, London UK
2015 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Gladstone Hotel, Re-Imagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67, Toronto, ON