Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 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
  • 2017
    Visiting Hours

    Visiting Hours

    Visiting Hours

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    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....

    Visiting Hours
  • 2022
    New York State of Mind

    New York State of Mind

    New York State of Mind

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    In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century. The...

    New York State of Mind
  • 1999
    Hey Madonna

    Hey Madonna

    Hey Madonna

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    Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from...

    Hey Madonna
  • 2020
    Feast

    Feast

    Feast

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    When he won his Giller Award, Saint Lucia poet/playwright Derek Walcott couldn’t make it, so Michael Ondaatje stood in his place and read Love...

    Feast
  • 2014
    Safety Film Collection

    Safety Film Collection

    Safety Film Collection

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

    Safety Film Collection
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    Shiteater

    Shiteater

    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...

    Shiteater
  • 2023
    Birgit Hein

    Birgit Hein

    Birgit Hein

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    A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

    Birgit Hein
  • 2003
    The Game

    The Game

    The Game

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

    The Game
  • 2004
    Amy

    Amy

    Amy

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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....

    Amy
  • 1998
    Positiv

    Positiv

    Positiv

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    A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...

    Positiv
  • 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
  • 1990
    Antigone

    Antigone

    Antigone

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1992
    Mexico

    Mexico

    Mexico

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    "In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...

    Mexico
  • 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