Mike Hoolboom Movies

In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

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...

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

The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.

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....

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

This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...

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

Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city...

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...

A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...

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

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...

Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape project...

Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

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

Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.