Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2018
Aftermath
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A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies...
- 2021
The Guy on the Bed
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News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly...
- 2019
Gramsci’s Notebooks
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After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...
- 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...
- 2017
Spectator
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Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 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.
- 2022
New York State of Mind
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In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century. The...
- 2023
Wind
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Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....
- 2004
Glass
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Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2016
Incident Reports
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After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...
- 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...
- 2019
27 Thoughts About My Father
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Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he...
- 2003
Rain
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The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 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...
- 1986
White Museum
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“The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike...
- 2016
We Make Couples
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This Marxist love story asks: could the couple also be a form of resistance? Essay notes on marriage, microcinema, and the art of projection. With...
- 2003
Scaling
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Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
- 2000
In the City
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Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2004
Tradition
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Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 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...