Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2021
    Sundays

    Sundays

    Sundays

    02021HD

    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...

    Sundays
  • 2004
    Tradition

    Tradition

    Tradition

    02004HD

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

    Tradition
  • 2018
    Supernatural Power

    Supernatural Power

    Supernatural Power

    02018HD

    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 and...

    Supernatural Power
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    41997HD

    A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

    Pensão Globo
  • 2019
    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    02019HD

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

    Father Auditions
  • 2004
    In the Theatre

    In the Theatre

    In the Theatre

    02004HD

    Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had...

    In the Theatre
  • 1993
    Shiteater

    Shiteater

    Shiteater

    01993HD

    Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain. Shiteater is a carefully hewn...

    Shiteater
  • 2003
    Last Thoughts

    Last Thoughts

    Last Thoughts

    02003HD

    Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

    Last Thoughts
  • 2023
    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    02023HD

    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 bear...

    Nazareth
  • 2015
    Farrago

    Farrago

    Farrago

    02015HD

    In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...

    Farrago
  • 1999
    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    5.51999HD

    Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

    Vacancy
  • 2020
    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    02020HD

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
  • 1993
    Escape in Canada

    Escape in Canada

    Escape in Canada

    01993HD

    The cross-country travelogue which is the basis of this film was made in the fourties. Sponsored by the Canadian government, it is pitched towards an...

    Escape in Canada
  • 1987
    Fat Film

    Fat Film

    Fat Film

    01987HD

    A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...

    Fat Film
  • 2019
    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    02019HD

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

    Credit Card
  • 1995
    Moucle's Island

    Moucle's Island

    Moucle's Island

    11995HD

    “Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what...

    Moucle's Island
  • 2019
    Gramsci’s Notebooks

    Gramsci’s Notebooks

    Gramsci’s Notebooks

    02019HD

    After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...

    Gramsci’s Notebooks
  • 2022
    New York State of Mind

    New York State of Mind

    New York State of Mind

    02022HD

    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...

    New York State of Mind
  • 2021
    Feeling States

    Feeling States

    Feeling States

    02021HD

    Short by Mike Hoolboom.

    Feeling States
  • 2000
    In the City

    In the City

    In the City

    02000HD

    Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    In the City