Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2019
(S)he Said that
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An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.
- 2003
Last Thoughts
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Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 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...
- 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...
- 2021
Feeling States
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Short by Mike Hoolboom.
- 2014
Safety Picture Collection
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A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...
- 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...
- 2018
A Boy’s Life
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Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 2004
In the Theatre
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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...
- 2003
Imitation of Life
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Part 9 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 1998
In the Future
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Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 1998
In My Car
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A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...
- 1994
Justify My Love
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Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.
- 1993
1+1+1
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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...
- 1990
Sugar Maple Stand
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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...