Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 1999
    Damaged

    Damaged

    Damaged

    01999HD

    A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve...

    Damaged
  • 2021
    Ice Cream

    Ice Cream

    Ice Cream

    02021HD

    An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originality...

    Ice Cream
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

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    BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by...

    Beacon
  • 2019
    Threshold

    Threshold

    Threshold

    02019HD

    A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and...

    Threshold
  • 2020
    Zen Basketball

    Zen Basketball

    Zen Basketball

    02020HD

    In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...

    Zen Basketball
  • 2002
    Tom

    Tom

    Tom

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    Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

    Tom
  • 2015
    Farrago

    Farrago

    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...

    Farrago
  • 1992
    In the Cinema

    In the Cinema

    In the Cinema

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    The main character is the title.

    In the Cinema
  • 2021
    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    02021HD

    One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator...

    For the Birds
  • 2022
    Letter to Fred

    Letter to Fred

    Letter to Fred

    02022HD

    A letter from my friend Alfred Vander. Though when we met he was Fred Pelon, anarchist super 8 filmmaker, a prolific machine of thoughts and...

    Letter to Fred
  • 2016
    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

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    After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...

    Incident Reports
  • 1998
    Faultlines

    Faultlines

    Faultlines

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    “In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all...

    Faultlines
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    Wind

    02023HD

    Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....

    Wind
  • 1989
    Brand

    Brand

    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...

    Brand
  • 2019
    Soft Animal Body

    Soft Animal Body

    Soft Animal Body

    02019HD

    This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...

    Soft Animal Body
  • 2020
    We Are Islands

    We Are Islands

    We Are Islands

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    Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore....

    We Are Islands
  • 2018
    After the American Election

    After the American Election

    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...

    After the American Election
  • 2017
    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    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,...

    From the Archives of the Red Cross
  • 2022
    Skinship

    Skinship

    Skinship

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    Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

    Skinship
  • 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