Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2019
27 Thoughts About My Father
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Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he...
- 2021
For the Birds
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One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator...
- 2000
In the City
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Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 1993
Kanada
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A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.
- 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.
- 2004
Amy
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'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face....
- 1994
Valentine's Day
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In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In...
- 2021
Ice Cream
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An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originality...
- 2003
The Game
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Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 1990
Antigone
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“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...
- 1994
Frank's Cock
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A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.
- 2023
Birgit Hein
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A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.
- 2017
From the Archives of the Red Cross
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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,...
- 2003
Scaling
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Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2001
Writing
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Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2021
Skinned
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A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...
- 2009
Mark
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This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...
- 2013
Buffalo Death Mask
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For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice...
- 2023
Winter
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The movie is animated by a question. Can we see what we see? I think of what is close at hand, the painting on the wall, book titles shouting from...
- 1993
Escape in Canada
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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...