Mike Hoolboom Filmes

  • 2012
    Lacan Palestine

    Lacan Palestine

    Lacan Palestine

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    Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial...

    Lacan Palestine
  • 2002
    Tom

    Tom

    Tom

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    Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

    Tom
  • 2017
    Citizen Poet

    Citizen Poet

    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.

    Citizen Poet
  • 2021
    Cut

    Cut

    Cut

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    Based on Hito Steyerl’s bracing 2009 essay of the same name, Cut looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways,...

    Cut
  • 2021
    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    02021HD

    The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...

    Model Citizens
  • 2016
    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

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    After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...

    Incident Reports
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

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    A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.

    Frank's Cock
  • 1993
    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

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    Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...

    Sleepy Haven
  • 2018
    Aftermath

    Aftermath

    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...

    Aftermath
  • 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
  • 2014
    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    Safety Picture Collection

    02014HD

    A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

    Safety Picture Collection
  • 2009
    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

    All Fall Down

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    An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

    All Fall Down
  • 2004
    Hiro

    Hiro

    Hiro

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    Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Hiro
  • 1994
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

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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...

    Valentine's Day
  • 2022
    Waves

    Waves

    Waves

    02022HD

    “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
  • 2006
    Fascination

    Fascination

    Fascination

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    “In order to take the next step (not forward or backwards, but only: to go on) it is often necessary to lean on a picture made by someone else,...

    Fascination
  • 2013
    Buffalo Death Mask

    Buffalo Death Mask

    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...

    Buffalo Death Mask
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    Wind

    02023HD

    Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....

    Wind
  • 2016
    Introduction to Mountains

    Introduction to Mountains

    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....

    Introduction to Mountains
  • 2022
    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    Freedom from Everything

    02022HD

    Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by...

    Freedom from Everything