Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2020
    After Victory Day

    After Victory Day

    After Victory Day

    02020HD

    The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an...

    After Victory Day
  • 2016
    Land of Not Knowing

    Land of Not Knowing

    Land of Not Knowing

    02016HD

    How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s...

    Land of Not Knowing
  • 2021
    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

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    Soft Landings for Capitalism
  • 2018
    After the American Election

    After the American Election

    After the American Election

    02018HD

    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
  • 2016
    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

    02016HD

    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
  • 2018
    Introduction to Alchemy

    Introduction to Alchemy

    Introduction to Alchemy

    02018HD

    Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...

    Introduction to Alchemy
  • 2003
    The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    02003HD

    The journey of a someone in search of his roots. He is pursued by his childhood self who has already written his own future, and foretells the...

    The Invisible Man
  • 2009
    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

    02009HD

    An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

    All Fall Down
  • 2019
    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    02019HD

    In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators...

    Credit Card
  • 2017
    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    02017HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1987
    Fat Film

    Fat Film

    Fat Film

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    A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...

    Fat Film
  • 2020
    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    02020HD

    A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...

    Judy Versus Capitalism
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

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    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
  • 2009
    Mark

    Mark

    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...

    Mark
  • 1996
    Dear Madonna

    Dear Madonna

    Dear Madonna

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    Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

    Dear Madonna
  • 2004
    Tradition

    Tradition

    Tradition

    02004HD

    Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Tradition
  • 2017
    Spectator

    Spectator

    Spectator

    02017HD

    Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.

    Spectator
  • 1998
    Passing On

    Passing On

    Passing On

    01998HD

    Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...

    Passing On