Mike Hoolboom Movies

A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies...

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

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

A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form...

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

Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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

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...

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...