Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 1990
    Sugar Maple Stand

    Sugar Maple Stand

    Sugar Maple Stand

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    Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas...

    Sugar Maple Stand
  • 1999
    Hey Madonna

    Hey Madonna

    Hey Madonna

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    Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from...

    Hey Madonna
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    Wind

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

    Wind
  • 2004
    Glass

    Glass

    Glass

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    Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Glass
  • 1996
    Eternity

    Eternity

    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...

    Eternity
  • 2013
    Buffalo Death Mask

    Buffalo Death Mask

    Buffalo Death Mask

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    For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice...

    Buffalo Death Mask
  • 2017
    In 1974

    In 1974

    In 1974

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    A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

    In 1974
  • 2003
    Portrait

    Portrait

    Portrait

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

    Portrait
  • 2004
    Tradition

    Tradition

    Tradition

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    Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Tradition
  • 2021
    Listening

    Listening

    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...

    Listening
  • 1994
    Justify My Love

    Justify My Love

    Justify My Love

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    Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.

    Justify My Love
  • 2023
    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    Nazareth

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    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
  • 2020
    Zen Basketball

    Zen Basketball

    Zen Basketball

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

    Zen Basketball
  • 2003
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

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

    Rain
  • 2009
    Mark

    Mark

    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...

    Mark
  • 2019
    Threshold

    Threshold

    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...

    Threshold
  • 2023
    Winter

    Winter

    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...

    Winter
  • 2022
    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

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    Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...

    Freedom from Everything
  • 2020
    After Victory Day

    After Victory Day

    After Victory Day

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    The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an...

    After Victory Day
  • 2019
    Language, not territory

    Language, not territory

    Language, not territory

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    In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Mary...

    Language, not territory