Mike Hoolboom Movies

An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he...

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...

Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...

A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry of...

“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,...

Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

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

After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...

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

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

An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.

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

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...

“The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike...

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...

Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....

Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

A meditation in two parts. The traveller lays up a set of headphones and tranforms his tropical setting into a concert stage, listening to an...