Mike Hoolboom Movies

Mirrors features a series of mirrors clipped from the movies of Ingmar Bergman. A mise-en-abyme, a reflection on reflections, in other words, an...

In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators...

Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

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...

Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

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

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

Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist....

Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

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

When he won his Giller Award, Saint Lucia poet/playwright Derek Walcott couldn’t make it, so Michael Ondaatje stood in his place and read Love...

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

Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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...

A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...

A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.

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...

Short by Mike Hoolboom.