Mike Hoolboom Movies

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...

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

Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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...

Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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...

The main character is the title.

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...

“After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy...

A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...

Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...

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

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

“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...

Portrait moments collected across the world carry powerful situations and stand out from the grip of the image with an expression, a tear, a flame, a...

Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Part one of the nine-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an...

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...

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