Mike Hoolboom Movies

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

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...

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

Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.

Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

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,...

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

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

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

Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain.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

Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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

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

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

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

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...

Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together,...