Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2017
Spectator
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Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 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...
- 2018
Lions
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This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2024
Promises
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Portrait moments collected across the world carry powerful situations and stand out from the grip of the image with an expression, a tear, a flame, a...
- 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...
- 1998
Positiv
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A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...
- 2009
Mark
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This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...
- 2017
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
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The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 2019
(S)he Said that
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An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.
- 1987
Fat Film
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A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...
- 2004
Tradition
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Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 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...
- 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.
- 1996
Eternity
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“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...
- 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...