Mike Hoolboom Movies

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

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

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

Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

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

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...

How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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....

After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...

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

A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.