Movies: Mike Hoolboom
- 2019
27 Thoughts About My Father (2019)
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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 creates a portrait of a exceedingly clever, yet evanescent father figure haunted by the war that sent his o...
- 2021
For the Birds (2021)
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One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator describes a post-art life that leads, inexorably, to the nature of nature....
- 2000
In the City (2000)
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Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004)....
- 1993
Kanada (1993)
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A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money....
- 2003
In the Dark (2003)
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A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light....
- 2004
Amy (2004)
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'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face. Astonishing closing image is a tightly composed telephoto shot on the start of a marathon race among young schoolgirls, dashing ...
- 1994
Valentine's Day (1994)
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In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In the midst of social chaos, a lesbian couple, Barb and Alex, dress themselves in protective masks, gown...
- 2021
Ice Cream (2021)
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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 and signature to one ordered by the brand, branding and simulation." This short essay doc is indebted...
- 2003
The Game (2003)
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Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003)....
- 1990
Antigone (1990)
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“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers, Antigone is both a documentary about searching for meaning and validity in the old story, and a fiction about t...
- 1994
Frank's Cock (1994)
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A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS....
- 2023
Birgit Hein (2023)
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A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein....
- 2017
From the Archives of the Red Cross (2017)
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Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together, immersing ourselves in a selection of Red Cross shorts made over nearly a century in countries round the wo...
- 2003
Scaling (2003)
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Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003)....
- 2001
Writing (2001)
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Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004)....
- 2021
Skinned (2021)
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A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections: pensive, disbelieving, grieving, philosophical. We used to have movie stars and famous musicians. N...
- 2009
Mark (2009)
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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 with Mark's friends and family, as well as his lover, are interwoven with home movies, offering a gli...
- 2013
Buffalo Death Mask (2013)
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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 documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandesc...
- 2023
Winter (2023)
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The movie is animated by a question. Can we see what we see? I think of what is close at hand, the painting on the wall, book titles shouting from the choir on the shelf. And then further afield, to countries that have been made visible or invisible ...
- 1993
Escape in Canada (1993)
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The cross-country travelogue which is the basis of this film was made in the fourties. Sponsored by the Canadian government, it is pitched towards an American understanding, unfolding the blank geography of its northern neighbour as a playground for ...