Self-appointed family chronicler Philip Hoffman documents his father's aging process. Images of this once-vital man as captured in the director's amateur images are confronted by scenes of a sick old man slowly awaiting death at the family cottage by the lake. This experimental film combines intimate home videos (ranging from the director's childhood all the way to the present as he cares for his incapacitated father) with unique impressions from the surrounding countryside that describe the transience of human life. Sounds of nature, such as water splashing on the lake's surface or birdcalls, underscore the grainy wordless images.—anonymous

AGED is an experimental documentary about the relationship between aging and corporeal perception. From 2007 to 2011, along with my sisters, I was a caregiver for my father, during his swift movement into old age. Over this period I maintained a practice of sketching using film, video and sound, and through this process I collected a significant archive of intimate moments, at the summer cottage, where my father chose to die. This raw material has been worked and reworked through various modes of digital and filmic manipulation. Ultimately AGED uncovers the common process of aging, the cinematic elements acting as a corollary for changes in human perception with a view to exceptional vision. Philip Hoffman