Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2003
Portrait
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Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2021
Listening
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Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape project...
- 2003
The Game
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Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 1994
Valentine's Day
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In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In...
- 1992
In the Cinema
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The main character is the title.
- 2003
Imitations of Life
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Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style. The chapters: In the Future,...
- 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,...
- 2024
Body Electric
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A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from...
- 2022
Freedom from Everything
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Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...
- 2022
Waves
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“After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy...
- 2022
Close-Up
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Tasked to produce a short intro to my feature-length essay Cut, I turned to the origins of the close-up, in a scene featuring camera person Billy...
- 2020
TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
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- 2021
Soft Landings for Capitalism
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- 1996
Dear Madonna
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Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".
- 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
Identification
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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...
- 2019
Soft Animal Body
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This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...
- 2018
Introduction to Alchemy
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Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...
- 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...
- 2012
Lacan Palestine
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Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial...