Mike Hoolboom Movies

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...

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

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

How to use this old technology of the postcard, with its marriage of image and text, its insistence that every exchange has two-sides which can never...

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

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?...

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,...

An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.

In this dramatic short, a refugee crosses the ocean to escape the ravages of war, but loses family along the way. The musings of poets (Brand,...

The main character is the title.

A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve...

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

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

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

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

A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense...

Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from...

Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...

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