Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 1994
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    01994HD

    In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In...

    Valentine's Day
  • 2021
    Skinned

    Skinned

    Skinned

    02021HD

    A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...

    Skinned
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    51994HD

    A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.

    Frank's Cock
  • 1993
    Kanada

    Kanada

    Kanada

    51993HD

    A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.

    Kanada
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    01994HD

    A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

    Scattering Stars
  • 1996
    Letters From Home

    Letters From Home

    Letters From Home

    41996HD

    An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found...

    Letters From Home
  • 2004
    Amy

    Amy

    Amy

    02004HD

    'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face....

    Amy
  • 2017
    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    02017HD

    The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
  • 1998
    Panic Bodies

    Panic Bodies

    Panic Bodies

    01998HD

    "Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama...

    Panic Bodies
  • 2022
    New York State of Mind

    New York State of Mind

    New York State of Mind

    02022HD

    In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century. The...

    New York State of Mind
  • 1993
    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    31993HD

    Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...

    Sleepy Haven
  • 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
  • 2015
    Scrapbook

    Scrapbook

    Scrapbook

    02015HD

    Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Developmental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audio visual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the...

    Scrapbook
  • 2024
    Veterans

    Veterans

    Veterans

    02024HD

    How does the body remember? Doctors began treating tens of thousands troops (those who were not shot by their own comrades for failing to perform...

    Veterans
  • 1999
    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    5.51999HD

    Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

    Vacancy
  • 2024
    Promises

    Promises

    Promises

    02024HD

    Portrait moments collected across the world carry powerful situations and stand out from the grip of the image with an expression, a tear, a flame, a...

    Promises
  • 2003
    Imitations of Life

    Imitations of Life

    Imitations of Life

    62003HD

    Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style. The chapters: In the Future,...

    Imitations of Life
  • 2022
    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    02022HD

    Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...

    Freedom from Everything
  • 2022
    Waves

    Waves

    Waves

    02022HD

    “After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy...

    Waves
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    41997HD

    A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

    Pensão Globo