Mike Hoolboom Movies

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

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

Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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

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...

Made at the international film school in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation...

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...

One of my father's favourite expressions, mostly passed away now: for the birds. Meaning: that was nothing. In this aviary anthology, the narrator...

Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

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

Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist....

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

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,...

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

A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...

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...