Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2017
Visiting Hours
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How to show the long bus ride began in the dark to visit the husband in jail? The repetition which is new every morning. The feeling of seeing him....
- 2022
The Central Gesture
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Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...
- 2020
Zen Basketball
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In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...
- 2019
Lover Man
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The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000). Mike insists that listening deeply to...
- 2015
Farrago
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In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...
- 2019
After Drowning
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In this dramatic short, a refugee crosses the ocean to escape the ravages of war, but loses family along the way. The musings of poets (Brand,...
- 2022
Letter to Fred
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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...
- 2004
Hiro
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Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 1999
Hey Madonna
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Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from...
- 2009
Mark
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This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...
- 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...
- 2004
Public Lighting
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How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for...
- 2021
Model Citizens
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The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...
- 2018
I Saw Him There
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Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. The...
- 2001
Writing
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Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2019
I Touched Her Legs remix
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Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal...
- 1989
Brand
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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...
- 2021
Sundays
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An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell...
- 1998
Passing On
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Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...
- 2003
Last Thoughts
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Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).