Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2004
Amy
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'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face....
- 2020
Zen Basketball
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In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...
- 2024
Rain
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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...
- 2002
Tom
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Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.
- 2016
Land of Not Knowing
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How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s...
- 2022
Letter to Fred
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A letter from my friend Alfred Vander. Though when we met he was Fred Pelon, anarchist super 8 filmmaker, a prolific machine of thoughts and...
- 1993
Shiteater
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Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain. Shiteater is a carefully hewn...
- 2013
Buffalo Death Mask
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For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice...
- 2018
Supernatural Power
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Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs. The mystical faiths of destruction and...
- 1993
Kanada
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A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.
- 2015
Farrago
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In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...
- 2021
For the Birds
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One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator...
- 2020
Judy Versus Capitalism
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A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...
- 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...
- 1996
Dear Madonna
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Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".
- 2017
In 1974
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A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.
- 2023
Winter
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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...
- 2006
Fascination
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“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,...
- 1992
In the Cinema
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The main character is the title.
- 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...