Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2020
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...
- 1993
Shiteater
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Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain. Shiteater is a carefully hewn...
- 2012
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...
- 2004
Hiro
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Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2022
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...
- 2018
A Boy’s Life
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Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 2009
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...
- 2021
For the Birds
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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...
- 2019
Threshold
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A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and...
- 2000
In the City
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Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2017
Spectator
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Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 2015
Farrago
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In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...
- 1993
Escape in Canada
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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...
- 2019
Lover Man
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The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000). Mike insists that listening deeply to...
- 2019
Father Auditions
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"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
- 2017
Subway Stops
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Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops....
- 2014
Second Nature
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A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.
- 2010
5 Klesas
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Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.
- 2002
Beacon
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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...
- 2021
Soft Landings for Capitalism
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