Mike Hoolboom Movies

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

“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...

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...

News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly...

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

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

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

Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops....

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,...

“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...

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...

“In order to take the next step (not forward or backwards, but only: to go on) it is often necessary to lean on a picture made by someone else,...

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...

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

Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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...

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

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...

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...