Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 1998
    Passing On

    Passing On

    Passing On

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    Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...

    Passing On
  • 2015
    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    Mirrors

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    Mirrors features a series of mirrors clipped from the movies of Ingmar Bergman. A mise-en-abyme, a reflection on reflections, in other words, an...

    Mirrors
  • 2022
    Close-Up

    Close-Up

    Close-Up

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    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...

    Close-Up
  • 1999
    Damaged

    Damaged

    Damaged

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

    Damaged
  • 2022
    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    02022HD

    Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...

    Freedom from Everything
  • 2021
    The Guy on the Bed

    The Guy on the Bed

    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...

    The Guy on the Bed
  • 2016
    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

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    After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...

    Incident Reports
  • 2019
    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    Credit Card

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    In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators...

    Credit Card
  • 2003
    Last Thoughts

    Last Thoughts

    Last Thoughts

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    Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

    Last Thoughts
  • 2014
    Second Nature

    Second Nature

    Second Nature

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    A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.

    Second Nature
  • 2018
    Aftermath

    Aftermath

    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...

    Aftermath
  • 2019
    Soft Animal Body

    Soft Animal Body

    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...

    Soft Animal Body
  • 1999
    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    Vacancy

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    Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

    Vacancy
  • 2022
    Skinship

    Skinship

    Skinship

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    Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

    Skinship
  • 2021
    Listening

    Listening

    Listening

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    Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape project...

    Listening
  • 2021
    Postcards

    Postcards

    Postcards

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    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...

    Postcards
  • 2017
    Ghost

    Ghost

    Ghost

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    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?...

    Ghost
  • 2017
    Nursing History

    Nursing History

    Nursing History

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    In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

    Nursing History
  • 2003
    In the Dark

    In the Dark

    In the Dark

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    A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

    In the Dark
  • 2004
    Tradition

    Tradition

    Tradition

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

    Tradition