Mike Hoolboom Filmes

  • 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
  • 2024
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

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    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...

    Rain
  • 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    Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain.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
  • 2017
    In 1974

    In 1974

    In 1974

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    A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

    In 1974
  • 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
  • 2024
    Veterans

    Veterans

    Veterans

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    How does the body remember? Doctors began treating tens of thousands troops (those who were not shot by their own comrades for failing to perform...

    Veterans
  • 2019
    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    Credit Card

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    In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators...

    Credit Card
  • 2021
    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

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

    Model Citizens
  • 1987
    Fat Film

    Fat Film

    Fat Film

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

    Fat Film
  • 2011
    Forest Walk

    Forest Walk

    Forest Walk

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    Commissioned for LIFT’s (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) 30th anniversary, this brief black and white sojourn finds a father and...

    Forest Walk
  • 1996
    Eternity

    Eternity

    Eternity

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    “Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...

    Eternity
  • 2024
    Promises

    Promises

    Promises

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    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...

    Promises
  • 2010
    5 Klesas

    5 Klesas

    5 Klesas

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    Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

    5 Klesas
  • 2016
    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

    Incident Reports

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    After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...

    Incident Reports
  • 2024
    White Harlem

    White Harlem

    White Harlem

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    The March of Time produced 200 newsreels from 1935-1951, shown in movie theatres once per month. In an 18-minute film from August 1939 film called...

    White Harlem
  • 1988
    Scaling

    Scaling

    Scaling

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

    Scaling
  • 2004
    Glass

    Glass

    Glass

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

    Glass
  • 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
  • 2000
    Secret

    Secret

    Secret

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

    Secret
  • 2000
    Jack

    Jack

    Jack

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

    Jack