Mike Hoolboom Movies

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

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

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...

A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve...

How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for...

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

How to use this old technology of the postcard, with its marriage of image and text, its insistence that every exchange has two-sides which can never...

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

This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...

One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator...

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).

Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs. The mystical faiths of destruction and...

A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one face at a time. Four figures on a hillside bear...

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

Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

In this dramatic short, a refugee crosses the ocean to escape the ravages of war, but loses family along the way. The musings of poets (Brand,...

This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...

Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist....