Mike Hoolboom Movies

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

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

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...

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 terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...

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

Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from...

News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly...

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

A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from...

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?...

“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,...

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

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

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...

Tasked to produce a short intro to my feature-length essay Cut, I turned to the origins of the close-up, in a scene featuring camera person Billy...

An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell...

Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.