Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

    92002HD

    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...

    Beacon
  • 2017
    3 Dreams of Horses

    3 Dreams of Horses

    3 Dreams of Horses

    42017HD

    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...

    3 Dreams of Horses
  • 2015
    Scrapbook

    Scrapbook

    Scrapbook

    02015HD

    Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Developmental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audio visual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the...

    Scrapbook
  • 2019
    Threshold

    Threshold

    Threshold

    02019HD

    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...

    Threshold
  • 2017
    Spectator

    Spectator

    Spectator

    02017HD

    Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.

    Spectator
  • 1990
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    01990HD

    “Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...

    Antigone
  • 1999
    Hoolboom

    Hoolboom

    Hoolboom

    01999HD

    "Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom....

    Hoolboom
  • 1986
    White Museum

    White Museum

    White Museum

    01986HD

    “The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike...

    White Museum
  • 2019
    Lover Man

    Lover Man

    Lover Man

    02019HD

    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...

    Lover Man
  • 2014
    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    02014HD

    A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

    Safety Picture Collection
  • 2017
    Citizen Poet

    Citizen Poet

    Citizen Poet

    02017HD

    Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.

    Citizen Poet
  • 2004
    Hiro

    Hiro

    Hiro

    1.52004HD

    Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Hiro
  • 2021
    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    02021HD

    Soft Landings for Capitalism
  • 2018
    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    02018HD

    Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...

    A Boy’s Life
  • 2021
    Sundays

    Sundays

    Sundays

    02021HD

    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...

    Sundays
  • 2018
    Introduction to Alchemy

    Introduction to Alchemy

    Introduction to Alchemy

    02018HD

    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,...

    Introduction to Alchemy
  • 2017
    Colour My World

    Colour My World

    Colour My World

    02017HD

    Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...

    Colour My World
  • 2018
    The Bed and the Street

    The Bed and the Street

    The Bed and the Street

    02018HD

    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...

    The Bed and the Street
  • 2019
    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    02019HD

    "Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...

    Father Auditions
  • 2004
    Public Lighting

    Public Lighting

    Public Lighting

    02004HD

    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...

    Public Lighting