Mike Hoolboom Filmes

A letter from my friend Alfred Vander. Though when we met he was Fred Pelon, anarchist super 8 filmmaker, a prolific machine of thoughts and...

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

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

“After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy...

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...

Part two of the nine-part compilation feature Imitations of Life (2003).

BRAND begins like a child's yawn, a fairy tale with an incredible beginning. Brand blends two themes into a fugue of questions and answers. The first...

Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city...

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...

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

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

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

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

A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.

This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...

A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry of...

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

Shot in the murk and fog of a breakdown. Friends jam, a body lies on the ground, James Baldwin visits his father for the last time. Inspired by Black...

“Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what...