Mike Hoolboom Movies

The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist....

Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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

Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain. Shiteater is a carefully hewn...

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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,...

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

An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found...

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together,...

A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

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...

A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...

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

The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...

Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originality...