Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2017
    Subway Stops

    Subway Stops

    Subway Stops

    02017HD

    Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops....

    Subway Stops
  • 2009
    Mark

    Mark

    Mark

    72009HD

    This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...

    Mark
  • 2021
    Haifa

    Haifa

    Haifa

    02021HD

    Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city...

    Haifa
  • 2018
    Instructions for Robots

    Instructions for Robots

    Instructions for Robots

    02018HD

    Made at the international film school in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation...

    Instructions for Robots
  • 2004
    Hiro

    Hiro

    Hiro

    1.52004HD

    Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Hiro
  • 2021
    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    02021HD

    Soft Landings for Capitalism
  • 2018
    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    02018HD

    Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...

    A Boy’s Life
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    01994HD

    A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

    Scattering Stars
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

    92002HD

    BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by...

    Beacon
  • 2019
    Threshold

    Threshold

    Threshold

    02019HD

    A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and...

    Threshold
  • 1986
    White Museum

    White Museum

    White Museum

    01986HD

    “The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike...

    White Museum
  • 2019
    Lover Man

    Lover Man

    Lover Man

    02019HD

    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...

    Lover Man
  • 2019
    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    02019HD

    "Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...

    Father Auditions
  • 2004
    Public Lighting

    Public Lighting

    Public Lighting

    02004HD

    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...

    Public Lighting
  • 2014
    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    02014HD

    A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

    Safety Picture Collection
  • 2019
    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    I Touched Her Legs remix

    02019HD

    Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal...

    I Touched Her Legs remix
  • 2017
    Citizen Poet

    Citizen Poet

    Citizen Poet

    02017HD

    Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.

    Citizen Poet
  • 2021
    Ice Cream

    Ice Cream

    Ice Cream

    02021HD

    An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originality...

    Ice Cream
  • 2021
    Sundays

    Sundays

    Sundays

    02021HD

    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...

    Sundays
  • 1989
    Brand

    Brand

    Brand

    01989HD

    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...

    Brand