Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2014
Second Nature
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A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.
- 2018
After the American Election
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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...
- 1994
Scattering Stars
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A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.
- 2017
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
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The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...
- 2018
Supernatural Power
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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...
- 2024
Rain
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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...
- 2018
Lions
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This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...
- 2006
Fascination
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“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,...
- 2002
Beacon
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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...
- 1987
Fat Film
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A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...
- 2003
Rain
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The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2017
Citizen Poet
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Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.
- 1993
Sleepy Haven
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Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...
- 2014
Safety Film Collection
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A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...
- 2017
From the Archives of the Red Cross
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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,...
- 2016
Land of Not Knowing
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How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s...
- 2004
Tradition
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Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2017
Colour My World
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Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...
- 1992
Mexico
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"In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...
- 1990
Antigone
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“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...