Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2019
Be Your Dog
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A meditation in two parts. The traveller lays up a set of headphones and tranforms his tropical setting into a concert stage, listening to an...
- 2019
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...
- 2019
Father Auditions
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"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
- 2017
Nursing History
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In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.
- 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...
- 2018
Instructions for Robots
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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...
- 2011
Forest Walk
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Commissioned for LIFT’s (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) 30th anniversary, this brief black and white sojourn finds a father and...
- 2018
A Boy’s Life
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Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 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...
- 1996
Dear Madonna
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Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".
- 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.
- 2017
Spectator
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Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 2017
Subway Stops
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Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops....
- 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.
- 2015
Scrapbook
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Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Developmental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audio visual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the...
- 2014
Safety Picture 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...
- 1996
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...
- 1993
Escape in Canada
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The cross-country travelogue which is the basis of this film was made in the fourties. Sponsored by the Canadian government, it is pitched towards an...
- 1998
Faultlines
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“In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all...
- 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...