Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2017
Subway Stops
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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....
- 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...
- 2021
Haifa
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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...
- 2018
Instructions for Robots
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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...
- 2004
Hiro
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Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2021
Soft Landings for Capitalism
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- 2018
A Boy’s Life
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Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 1994
Scattering Stars
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A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.
- 2002
Beacon
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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...
- 2019
Threshold
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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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2019
Father Auditions
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"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
- 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...
- 2014
Safety Picture 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...
- 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...
- 2017
Citizen Poet
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Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.
- 2021
Ice Cream
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An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originality...
- 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...
- 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...