Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2018
A Boy’s Life
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Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 1998
Positiv
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A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...
- 1996
Dear Madonna
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Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".
- 2016
We Make Couples
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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...
- 2022
The Central Gesture
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Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...
- 2003
Imitation of Life
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Part 9 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2022
Close-Up
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Tasked to produce a short intro to my feature-length essay Cut, I turned to the origins of the close-up, in a scene featuring camera person Billy...
- 2017
Colour My World
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Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...
- 2024
Promises
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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, a...
- 2019
After Drowning
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In this dramatic short, a refugee crosses the ocean to escape the ravages of war, but loses family along the way. The musings of poets (Brand,...
- 1998
In the Future
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Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2020
After Victory Day
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The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an...
- 2014
Second Nature
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A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.
- 1998
Passing On
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Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...
- 2019
Threshold
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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...
- 1993
1+1+1
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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...
- 2016
Introduction to Mountains
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Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist....
- 2000
Secret
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Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2014
Safety Film Collection
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A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...
- 2016
Land of Not Knowing
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How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s...