Mike Hoolboom Movies

In a number of interlocking episodes, five women weigh in on growing up in capitalism. Poetries of survival are interwoven with an adaptation of Mary...

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

Shot in the subway during the summer and fall of 2016, each subject appears for a minute, 69 in all, one for each of Toronto’s subway stops....

In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century. The...

For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice...

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

"In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...

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

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

Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. The...

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...

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

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,...

Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned...

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

A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.

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

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...

The journey of a someone in search of his roots. He is pursued by his childhood self who has already written his own future, and foretells the...

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