Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2003
    Last Thoughts

    Last Thoughts

    Last Thoughts

    02003HD

    Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

    Last Thoughts
  • 2019
    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    02019HD

    "Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...

    Father Auditions
  • 2014
    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    02014HD

    A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

    Safety Picture Collection
  • 2018
    Instructions for Robots

    Instructions for Robots

    Instructions for Robots

    02018HD

    Made at the international film school in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation...

    Instructions for Robots
  • 2018
    The Bed and the Street

    The Bed and the Street

    The Bed and the Street

    02018HD

    A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry of...

    The Bed and the Street
  • 2019
    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    02019HD

    Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal...

    I Touched Her Legs remix
  • 2021
    Feeling States

    Feeling States

    Feeling States

    02021HD

    Short by Mike Hoolboom.

    Feeling States
  • 2018
    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    02018HD

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

    A Boy’s Life
  • 2004
    In the Theatre

    In the Theatre

    In the Theatre

    02004HD

    Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had...

    In the Theatre
  • 2003
    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    Imitation of Life

    02003HD

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

    Imitation of Life
  • 1998
    In the Future

    In the Future

    In the Future

    01998HD

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

    In the Future
  • 1998
    In My Car

    In My Car

    In My Car

    01998HD

    A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...

    In My Car
  • 1994
    Justify My Love

    Justify My Love

    Justify My Love

    01994HD

    Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.

    Justify My Love
  • 1993
    1+1+1

    1+1+1

    1+1+1

    01993HD

    Devils fall in love in Seattle in a black comedy of sex, machines and flight. Photographed a frame at a time over three days, 1+1+1 shows us the...

    1+1+1
  • 1990
    Sugar Maple Stand

    Sugar Maple Stand

    Sugar Maple Stand

    01990HD

    Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas...

    Sugar Maple Stand