Mike Hoolboom Movies

Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style. The chapters: In the Future,...

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 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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

Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense...

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...

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

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

The journey of a someone in search of his roots. He is pursued by his childhood self who has already written his own future, and foretells the...

How to show the long bus ride began in the dark to visit the husband in jail? The repetition which is new every morning. The feeling of seeing him....

An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found...

The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

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...

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...

A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from...

Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore....

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

“In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all...