Mike Hoolboom Filmes

  • 1998
    Passing On

    Passing On

    Passing On

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    Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...

    Passing On
  • 2016
    We Make Couples

    We Make Couples

    We Make Couples

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    This Marxist love story asks: could the couple also be a form of resistance? Essay notes on marriage, microcinema, and the art of projection. With...

    We Make Couples
  • 2019
    27 Thoughts About My Father

    27 Thoughts About My Father

    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...

    27 Thoughts About My Father
  • 2019
    (S)he Said that

    (S)he Said that

    (S)he Said that

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

    (S)he Said that
  • 2020
    After Victory Day

    After Victory Day

    After Victory Day

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

    After Victory Day
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    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)....

    Wind
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

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    A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

    Pensão Globo
  • 1995
    Moucle's Island

    Moucle's Island

    Moucle's Island

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    “Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what...

    Moucle's Island
  • 2020
    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

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    A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...

    Judy Versus Capitalism
  • 2022
    The Central Gesture

    The Central Gesture

    The Central Gesture

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    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...

    The Central Gesture
  • 2017
    Ghost

    Ghost

    Ghost

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    How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar?...

    Ghost
  • 1996
    Eternity

    Eternity

    Eternity

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    “Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...

    Eternity
  • 2021
    Ice Cream

    Ice Cream

    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...

    Ice Cream
  • 2022
    Letter to Fred

    Letter to Fred

    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...

    Letter to Fred
  • 1996
    Dear Madonna

    Dear Madonna

    Dear Madonna

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    Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

    Dear Madonna
  • 2018
    Introduction to Alchemy

    Introduction to Alchemy

    Introduction to Alchemy

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    Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...

    Introduction to Alchemy
  • 2003
    In the Dark

    In the Dark

    In the Dark

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    A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

    In the Dark
  • 2022
    Waves

    Waves

    Waves

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

    Waves
  • 2019
    Soft Animal Body

    Soft Animal Body

    Soft Animal Body

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    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...

    Soft Animal Body
  • 1995
    House of Pain

    House of Pain

    House of Pain

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    A hybrid of DeSade and Dali, House of Pain is a nightmare that takes place between sleep and death, where the performers appear as mute...

    House of Pain