Mike Hoolboom Movies

A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.

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

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...

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,...

The cross-country travelogue which is the basis of this film was made in the fourties. Sponsored by the Canadian government, it is pitched towards an...

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

Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...

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,...

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

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

An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell...

This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...

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

“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...

Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he...

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...

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