Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2014
    Second Nature

    Second Nature

    Second Nature

    02014HD

    A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.

    Second Nature
  • 2018
    After the American Election

    After the American Election

    After the American Election

    02018HD

    Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of...

    After the American Election
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    01994HD

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

    Scattering Stars
  • 2017
    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    02017HD

    The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
  • 2018
    Supernatural Power

    Supernatural Power

    Supernatural Power

    02018HD

    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...

    Supernatural Power
  • 2024
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

    02024HD

    One hundred children were dying every day in Gaza when I made this hopeless poem of hope. How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming...

    Rain
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

    92002HD

    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...

    Beacon
  • 1987
    Fat Film

    Fat Film

    Fat Film

    01987HD

    A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...

    Fat Film
  • 2003
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

    02003HD

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

    Rain
  • 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
  • 1993
    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    31993HD

    Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...

    Sleepy Haven
  • 2014
    Safety Film Collection

    Safety Film Collection

    Safety Film 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 Film Collection
  • 2017
    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    02017HD

    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,...

    From the Archives of the Red Cross
  • 2016
    Land of Not Knowing

    Land of Not Knowing

    Land of Not Knowing

    02016HD

    How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s...

    Land of Not Knowing
  • 2004
    Tradition

    Tradition

    Tradition

    02004HD

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

    Tradition
  • 2017
    Colour My World

    Colour My World

    Colour My World

    02017HD

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

    Colour My World
  • 1992
    Mexico

    Mexico

    Mexico

    5.81992HD

    "In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...

    Mexico
  • 1990
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

    01990HD

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

    Antigone