Mike Hoolboom Movies

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...

When he won his Giller Award, Saint Lucia poet/playwright Derek Walcott couldn’t make it, so Michael Ondaatje stood in his place and read Love...

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

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

The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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

Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city...

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

Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...

Devils fall in love in Seattle in a black comedy of sex, machines and flight. Photographed a frame at a time over three days, 1+1+1 shows us the...

Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt. The images have been soaked in water until...

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an...

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

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.