Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2015
    Farrago

    Farrago

    Farrago

    02015HD

    In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...

    Farrago
  • 2006
    Fascination

    Fascination

    Fascination

    02006HD

    “In order to take the next step (not forward or backwards, but only: to go on) it is often necessary to lean on a picture made by someone else,...

    Fascination
  • 2020
    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    02020HD

    A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...

    Judy Versus Capitalism
  • 1993
    Kanada

    Kanada

    Kanada

    51993HD

    A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.

    Kanada
  • 2023
    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    02023HD

    A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one face at a time. Four figures on a hillside bear...

    Nazareth
  • 2015
    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    02015HD

    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...

    Mirrors
  • 2017
    Ghost

    Ghost

    Ghost

    02017HD

    How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar?...

    Ghost
  • 2018
    Lions

    Lions

    Lions

    02018HD

    This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...

    Lions
  • 2020
    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    02020HD

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
  • 2024
    Promises

    Promises

    Promises

    02024HD

    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...

    Promises
  • 2021
    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    02021HD

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

    Model Citizens
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    21997HD

    A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

    Pensão Globo
  • 2002
    Tom

    Tom

    Tom

    82002HD

    Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

    Tom
  • 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
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    Wind

    02023HD

    Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....

    Wind
  • 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
  • 1999
    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    5.51999HD

    Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

    Vacancy
  • 2019
    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    02019HD

    Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal...

    I Touched Her Legs remix
  • 2000
    In the City

    In the City

    In the City

    02000HD

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

    In the City
  • 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