Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2019
Father Auditions
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"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
- 2003
Portrait
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Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 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....
- 1994
Justify My Love
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Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.
- 2001
Writing
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Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 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...
- 1995
House of Pain
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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...
- 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...
- 2004
Public Lighting
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How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for...
- 2019
I Touched Her Legs remix
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Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal...
- 2022
Letter to Fred
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A letter from my friend Alfred Vander. Though when we met he was Fred Pelon, anarchist super 8 filmmaker, a prolific machine of thoughts and...
- 1998
In My Car
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A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...
- 2003
In the Dark
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A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.
- 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...
- 1996
Eternity
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“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...
- 2022
Skinship
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Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?