Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2019
    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    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...

    Father Auditions
  • 2003
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

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    Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

    Portrait
  • 1993
    1+1+1

    1+1+1

    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...

    1+1+1
  • 2016
    Introduction to Mountains

    Introduction to Mountains

    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....

    Introduction to Mountains
  • 1994
    Justify My Love

    Justify My Love

    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.

    Justify My Love
  • 2001
    Writing

    Writing

    Writing

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    Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Writing
  • 2014
    Safety Film Collection

    Safety Film Collection

    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...

    Safety Film Collection
  • 1995
    House of Pain

    House of Pain

    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...

    House of Pain
  • 2016
    Land of Not Knowing

    Land of Not Knowing

    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...

    Land of Not Knowing
  • 2004
    Public Lighting

    Public Lighting

    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...

    Public Lighting
  • 2019
    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    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...

    I Touched Her Legs remix
  • 2022
    Letter to Fred

    Letter to Fred

    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...

    Letter to Fred
  • 1998
    In My Car

    In My Car

    In My Car

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

    In My Car
  • 2003
    In the Dark

    In the Dark

    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.

    In the Dark
  • 2018
    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    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...

    A Boy’s Life
  • 1998
    Positiv

    Positiv

    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...

    Positiv
  • 1996
    Dear Madonna

    Dear Madonna

    Dear Madonna

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    Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

    Dear Madonna
  • 2016
    We Make Couples

    We Make Couples

    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...

    We Make Couples
  • 1996
    Eternity

    Eternity

    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...

    Eternity
  • 2022
    Skinship

    Skinship

    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?

    Skinship