Mike Hoolboom Movies

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

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...

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,...

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...

Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

Made at the international film school in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation...

In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...

Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

“Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what...

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

After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...

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

“After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy...

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...

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

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...

A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from...