Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2012
    Lacan Palestine

    Lacan Palestine

    Lacan Palestine

    02012HD

    Lacan Palestine is a found footage essay about the troubled couple in Palestine. This country without a country has been party to imperial...

    Lacan Palestine
  • 1993
    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    31993HD

    Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...

    Sleepy Haven
  • 2021
    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    Model Citizens

    02021HD

    The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...

    Model Citizens
  • 1994
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    01994HD

    In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM. In...

    Valentine's Day
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    51994HD

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

    Frank's Cock
  • 2019
    Gramsci’s Notebooks

    Gramsci’s Notebooks

    Gramsci’s Notebooks

    02019HD

    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...

    Gramsci’s Notebooks
  • 2017
    Identification

    Identification

    Identification

    02017HD

    Shot in the murk and fog of a breakdown. Friends jam, a body lies on the ground, James Baldwin visits his father for the last time. Inspired by Black...

    Identification
  • 1994
    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    Scattering Stars

    01994HD

    A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

    Scattering Stars
  • 1998
    Panic Bodies

    Panic Bodies

    Panic Bodies

    01998HD

    "Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama...

    Panic Bodies
  • 1999
    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    5.51999HD

    Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

    Vacancy
  • 2017
    In 1974

    In 1974

    In 1974

    02017HD

    A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

    In 1974
  • 2016
    We Make Couples

    We Make Couples

    We Make Couples

    02016HD

    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...

    We Make Couples
  • 2017
    Visiting Hours

    Visiting Hours

    Visiting Hours

    02017HD

    How to show the long bus ride began in the dark to visit the husband in jail? The repetition which is new every morning. The feeling of seeing him....

    Visiting Hours
  • 2024
    Promises

    Promises

    Promises

    02024HD

    Portrait moments collected across the world carry powerful situations and stand out from the grip of the image with an expression, a tear, a flame, a...

    Promises
  • 2018
    Supernatural Power

    Supernatural Power

    Supernatural Power

    02018HD

    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...

    Supernatural Power
  • 1995
    Moucle's Island

    Moucle's Island

    Moucle's Island

    11995HD

    “Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what...

    Moucle's Island
  • 2019
    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    Credit Card

    02019HD

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

    Credit Card
  • 2020
    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)

    02020HD

    TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
  • 2017
    3 Dreams of Horses

    3 Dreams of Horses

    3 Dreams of Horses

    42017HD

    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...

    3 Dreams of Horses
  • 2020
    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    02020HD

    A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer. She is the founding publisher of...

    Judy Versus Capitalism