Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 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...
- 1987
Fat Film
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A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2003
Scaling
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Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2000
In the City
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Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2019
(S)he Said that
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An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.
- 2020
Judy Versus Capitalism
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A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...
- 2004
Tradition
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Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 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....
- 2018
After the American Election
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Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of...
- 2018
Lions
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This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...
- 2022
The Central Gesture
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Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...
- 2021
Model Citizens
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The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 2009
All Fall Down
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An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...
- 2020
Zen Basketball
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In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...
- 2017
Subway Stops
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Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops....
- 1998
Passing On
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Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...