Mike Hoolboom Filmes

How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar?...

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

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

One hundred children were dying every day in Gaza when I made this hopeless poem of hope. How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming...

Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged...

The movie is animated by a question. Can we see what we see? I think of what is close at hand, the painting on the wall, book titles shouting from...

Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas...

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...

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

“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,...

Made at the international film school in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation...

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

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had...

A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...

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

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

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

“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...