Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 1998
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...
- 2015
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...
- 2022
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...
- 1999
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...
- 2022
Freedom from Everything
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Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...
- 2021
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...
- 2016
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...
- 2019
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...
- 2003
Last Thoughts
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Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2014
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.
- 2018
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...
- 2019
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...
- 1999
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...
- 2022
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?
- 2021
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...
- 2021
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...
- 2017
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?...
- 2017
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.
- 2003
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.
- 2004
Tradition
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Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).