Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2020
    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    02020HD

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
  • 2017
    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    02017HD

    The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    21997HD

    A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

    Pensão Globo
  • 1998
    Panic Bodies

    Panic Bodies

    Panic Bodies

    01998HD

    "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...

    Panic Bodies
  • 1994
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    01994HD

    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...

    Valentine's Day
  • 2024
    Body Electric

    Body Electric

    Body Electric

    02024HD

    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...

    Body Electric
  • 2010
    5 Klesas

    5 Klesas

    5 Klesas

    02010HD

    Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

    5 Klesas
  • 2020
    We Are Islands

    We Are Islands

    We Are Islands

    02020HD

    Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore....

    We Are Islands
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    51994HD

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

    Frank's Cock
  • 2021
    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    02021HD

    The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...

    Model Citizens
  • 2019
    After Drowning

    After Drowning

    After Drowning

    02019HD

    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,...

    After Drowning
  • 1998
    Faultlines

    Faultlines

    Faultlines

    01998HD

    “In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all...

    Faultlines
  • 2017
    Identification

    Identification

    Identification

    02017HD

    Shot in the murk and fog of a breakdown. Friends jam, a body lies on the ground, James Baldwin visits his father for the last time. Inspired by Black...

    Identification
  • 2003
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

    02003HD

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

    Rain
  • 2021
    Skinned

    Skinned

    Skinned

    02021HD

    A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...

    Skinned
  • 2017
    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    02017HD

    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,...

    From the Archives of the Red Cross
  • 2009
    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

    02009HD

    An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

    All Fall Down
  • 1992
    Mexico

    Mexico

    Mexico

    5.81992HD

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

    Mexico
  • 2022
    The Central Gesture

    The Central Gesture

    The Central Gesture

    02022HD

    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...

    The Central Gesture
  • 2023
    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    02023HD

    A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one face at a time. Four figures on a hillside bear...

    Nazareth