Mike Hoolboom

An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with fou...

07 de set. de 1996

How does the body remember? Doctors began treating tens of thousands troops (those who were not shot by their own comrades for failing to perform t...

30 de nov. de 2024

A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...

30 de jan. de 2020

A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.

01 de jan. de 1993

"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panora...

10 de out. de 1998

In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century. The re...

30 de out. de 2022

After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the street...

20 de abr. de 2016

27 de out. de 2020

Portrait moments collected across the world carry powerful situations and stand out from the grip of the image with an expression, a tear, a flame,...

27 de out. de 2024

Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style. The chapters: In the Future, ...

24 de jun. de 2003

Um terrível vírus destrói finalmente a Internet e os humanos contemplam o horizonte. Cinco contribuem com lembranças e meditações pessoais: pensati...

03 de jan. de 2021

How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar? Let’s...

02 de nov. de 2017

A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home movi...

01 de jan. de 1998

A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense S...

30 de out. de 2022

05 de dez. de 2017

Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape proje...

23 de out. de 2021

Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs. The mystical faiths of destruction an...

10 de nov. de 2018

The journey of a someone in search of his roots. He is pursued by his childhood self who has already written his own future, and foretells the amne...

01 de jan. de 2003

The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which was s...

28 de out. de 2021

Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neolibe...

29 de abr. de 2022

Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

26 de ago. de 2022

For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voi...

24 de mar. de 2013

A hybrid of DeSade and Dali, House of Pain is a nightmare that takes place between sleep and death, where the performers appear as mute hallucinati...

01 de jan. de 1995

BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located b...

14 de ago. de 2002

Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

07 de mai. de 2002

In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators with polite...

01 de jan. de 2019

A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.

24 de jul. de 1994

Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. Th...

22 de out. de 2018

Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial projecti...

29 de jan. de 2012

Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter fro...

01 de jan. de 1999

This Marxist love story asks: could the couple also be a form of resistance? Essay notes on marriage, microcinema, and the art of projection. With ...

27 de jan. de 2016

'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face. Astonishing closing image...

31 de ago. de 2004

Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged in th...

19 de mar. de 1998

“In order to take the next step (not forward or backwards, but only: to go on) it is often necessary to lean on a picture made by someone else, som...

01 de jan. de 2006

The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an increasingly militarized...

02 de mar. de 2020

A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologie...

04 de mai. de 2018

In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Ma...

01 de dez. de 2019

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

02 de mar. de 2021

In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In...

01 de jan. de 1994

This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interview...

01 de jan. de 2009

A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one face at a time. Four figures on a hillside bea...

04 de dez. de 2023

A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve Rein...

01 de jan. de 1999

"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom. W...

01 de jan. de 1999

Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

01 de jan. de 2004

Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

01 de jan. de 2004

An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originalit...

02 de mar. de 2021

One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator ...

01 de mai. de 2021

How to use this old technology of the postcard, with its marriage of image and text, its insistence that every exchange has two-sides which can nev...

14 de dez. de 2021

“After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy invent...

13 de out. de 2022

"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditio...

01 de mar. de 2019

An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell –...

01 de jan. de 2021

This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions a...

25 de out. de 2018

A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry o...

28 de out. de 2018

Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of 2...

22 de out. de 2018

A meditation in two parts. The traveller lays up a set of headphones and tranforms his tropical setting into a concert stage, listening to an acous...

01 de jan. de 2019

Based on Hito Steyerl’s bracing 2009 essay of the same name, Cut looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways, organizin...

18 de ago. de 2021

Shot in the murk and fog of a breakdown. Friends jam, a body lies on the ground, James Baldwin visits his father for the last time. Inspired by Bla...

27 de jan. de 2017

News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly infe...

19 de set. de 2021

This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...

01 de jan. de 2019

Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port ci...

01 de jan. de 2021

Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore. The no...

15 de dez. de 2020

In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive pl...

17 de jul. de 2020

Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he crea...

26 de jan. de 2019

The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000). Mike insists that listening deeply to musi...

01 de jan. de 2019

A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and tu...

01 de jan. de 2019

Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist. Direct-to-ca...

08 de dez. de 2016

“The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike Hoolboom. ...

01 de jan. de 1986

Commissioned for LIFT’s (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) 30th anniversary, this brief black and white sojourn finds a father and son ...

01 de jan. de 2011

Devils fall in love in Seattle in a black comedy of sex, machines and flight. Photographed a frame at a time over three days, 1+1+1 shows us the wo...

01 de jan. de 1993

BRAND begins like a child's yawn, a fairy tale with an incredible beginning. Brand blends two themes into a fugue of questions and answers. The fir...

03 de mar. de 1989

A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...

01 de jan. de 1998