Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2017

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,...
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- 2024

Body Electric
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A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from...
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- 2004

In the Theatre
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Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had...
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- 2014

Safety Picture Collection
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A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...
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- 2014

Safety Film Collection
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A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...
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- 1998

Panic Bodies
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"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...
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- 2021

23 Thoughts About My Mother
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In a series of 23 vignettes, the artist offers up memories of his mother who died in March 2020. If offers a mix of analog snaps and diary footage...
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- 1992

Mexico
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"In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...
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- 1994

Valentine's Day
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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...
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- 1987

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...
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- 2021

The Guy on the Bed
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News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly...
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- 2022

New York State of Mind
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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...
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- 2011

Forest Walk
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Commissioned for LIFT’s (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) 30th anniversary, this brief black and white sojourn finds a father and...
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- 2019

Threshold
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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...
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- 2012

Lacan Palestine
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Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial...
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- 2018

Aftermath
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A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies...
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- 2019

Soft Animal Body
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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...
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- 1993

Escape in Canada
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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...
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- 2018

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...
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- 1998

In the Future
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Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
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