Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2002
Beacon
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BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by...
- 2017
3 Dreams of Horses
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Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned...
- 2015
Scrapbook
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Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Developmental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audio visual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the...
- 2019
Threshold
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A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and...
- 2017
Spectator
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Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 1990
Antigone
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“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...
- 1999
Hoolboom
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"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom....
- 1986
White Museum
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“The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike...
- 2019
Lover Man
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The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000). Mike insists that listening deeply to...
- 2014
Safety Picture 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...
- 2017
Citizen Poet
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Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.
- 2004
Hiro
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Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2021
Soft Landings for Capitalism
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- 2018
A Boy’s Life
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Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 2021
Sundays
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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...
- 2018
Introduction to Alchemy
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Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...
- 2017
Colour My World
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Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...
- 2018
The Bed and the Street
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A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry of...
- 2019
Father Auditions
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"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
- 2004
Public Lighting
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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...