Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2021

Sundays
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An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell...
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- 1988

Scaling
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A beguiling, humorous presentation of cinematic impermanence. A naked man (Hoolboom), tilted 90 degrees by the camera angle, paints a black shape on...
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- 2000

Jack
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Part two of the nine-part compilation feature Imitations of Life (2003).
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- 2017

In 1974
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A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.
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- 1999

Vacancy
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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...
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- 2022

Freedom from Everything
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Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...
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- 1998

Positiv
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A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...
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- 2021

Model Citizens
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The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...
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- 2004

Glass
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Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
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- 2003

Portrait
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Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
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- 2022

Close-Up
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Tasked to produce a short intro to my feature-length essay Cut, I turned to the origins of the close-up, in a scene featuring camera person Billy...
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- 2021

Cut
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Based on Hito Steyerl’s bracing 2009 essay of the same name, Cut looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways,...
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- 2017

Ghost
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How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar?...
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- 2017

Identification
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Shot in the murk and fog of a breakdown. Friends jam, a body lies on the ground, James Baldwin visits his father for the last time. Inspired by Black...
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- 2018

I Saw Him There
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Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. The...
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- 2019

Father Auditions
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"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
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- 1989

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...
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- 2009

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...
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- 2023

Birgit Hein
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A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.
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- 2019

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