Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 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.
- 1993
Shiteater
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Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain. Shiteater is a carefully hewn...
- 2019
Soft Animal Body
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This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...
- 2018
Introduction to Alchemy
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Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...
- 2022
Freedom from Everything
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Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...
- 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.
- 2015
Mirrors
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Mirrors features a series of mirrors clipped from the movies of Ingmar Bergman. A mise-en-abyme, a reflection on reflections, in other words, an...
- 2019
Lover Man
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The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000). Mike insists that listening deeply to...
- 2011
Forest Walk
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Commissioned for LIFT’s (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) 30th anniversary, this brief black and white sojourn finds a father and...
- 2020
We Are Islands
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Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore....
- 2021
The Guy on the Bed
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News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly...
- 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...
- 2018
Aftermath
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A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies...
- 2019
Gramsci’s Notebooks
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After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...
- 2017
Spectator
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Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 2017
Nursing History
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In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.
- 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...
- 1999
Hoolboom
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"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom....
- 2000
Secret
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Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2016
Incident Reports
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After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...