Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2017
3 Dreams of Horses
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Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned...
- 2019
After Drowning
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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,...
- 2023
Wind
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Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....
- 2004
Glass
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Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2004
Hiro
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Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 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...
- 2003
Rain
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The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2019
Be Your Dog
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A meditation in two parts. The traveller lays up a set of headphones and tranforms his tropical setting into a concert stage, listening to an...
- 1986
White Museum
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“The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike...
- 1999
Hey Madonna
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Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from...
- 2017
Visiting Hours
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How to show the long bus ride began in the dark to visit the husband in jail? The repetition which is new every morning. The feeling of seeing him....
- 2004
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...
- 2018
I Saw Him There
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Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. The...
- 2001
Writing
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Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 1989
Brand
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BRAND begins like a child's yawn, a fairy tale with an incredible beginning. Brand blends two themes into a fugue of questions and answers. The first...
- 2021
Sundays
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An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell...
- 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...
- 2015
Farrago
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In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...
- 2017
Colour My World
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Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...
- 2020
After Victory Day
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The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an...