Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 1999
Damaged
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A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1993
Kanada
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A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.
- 1994
Frank's Cock
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A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.
- 2022
How to Watch Pornography
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A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense...
- 2021
For the Birds
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One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator...
- 2003
The Invisible Man
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The journey of a someone in search of his roots. He is pursued by his childhood self who has already written his own future, and foretells the...
- 1997
Pensão Globo
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A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...
- 1996
Letters From Home
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An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found...
- 1998
Panic Bodies
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"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama...
- 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...
- 2017
In 1974
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A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.
- 2004
Amy
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'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face....
- 2022
Skinship
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Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?
- 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...
- 2021
Cut
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Based on Hito Steyerl’s bracing 2009 essay of the same name, Cut looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways,...
- 2019
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...
- 2021
Skinned
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A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...
- 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,...