Mike Hoolboom Movies

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...

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

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

The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

One hundred children were dying every day in Gaza when I made this hopeless poem of hope. How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming...

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

Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

The movie is animated by a question. Can we see what we see? I think of what is close at hand, the painting on the wall, book titles shouting from...

The cross-country travelogue which is the basis of this film was made in the fourties. Sponsored by the Canadian government, it is pitched towards an...

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

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...

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

Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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...

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...

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...

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

Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

How to show the long bus ride began in the dark to visit the husband in jail? The repetition which is new every morning. The feeling of seeing him....