Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2017
3 Dreams of Horses
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Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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)....
- 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
Glass
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Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2013
Buffalo Death Mask
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For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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).
- 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...
- 2019
(S)he Said that
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An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.
- 2016
Introduction to Mountains
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Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist....
- 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...