Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    51997HD

    A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on...

    Pensão Globo
  • 2004
    Amy

    Amy

    Amy

    02004HD

    'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face....

    Amy
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

    82002HD

    BEACON is a montage of location shots filmed at ten different places around the world. These sites are connected by the fact that each is located by...

    Beacon
  • 2017
    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    02017HD

    The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and...

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
  • 1994
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    71994HD

    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
  • 1999
    Hoolboom

    Hoolboom

    Hoolboom

    01999HD

    "Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his impressions of fellow filmmaker Mike Hoolboom....

    Hoolboom
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    5.21994HD

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

    Frank's Cock
  • 1998
    Faultlines

    Faultlines

    Faultlines

    01998HD

    “In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all...

    Faultlines
  • 1993
    1+1+1

    1+1+1

    1+1+1

    01993HD

    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...

    1+1+1
  • 2021
    Haifa

    Haifa

    Haifa

    02021HD

    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...

    Haifa
  • 2019
    (S)he Said that

    (S)he Said that

    (S)he Said that

    02019HD

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

    (S)he Said that
  • 1993
    Escape in Canada

    Escape in Canada

    Escape in Canada

    71993HD

    A lesbian call fall in and out of love while Prime Minister Wayne Gretzky wages a war against secessional Quebec for media money.

    Escape in Canada
  • 2021
    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    Soft Landings for Capitalism

    02021HD

    Soft Landings for Capitalism
  • 2018
    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    A Boy’s Life

    02018HD

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

    A Boy’s Life
  • 2004
    In the Theatre

    In the Theatre

    In the Theatre

    02004HD

    Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads. Colin had...

    In the Theatre
  • 2019
    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    Father Auditions

    02019HD

    "Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...

    Father Auditions
  • 2019
    How to Watch Pornography

    How to Watch Pornography

    How to Watch Pornography

    02019HD

    A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense...

    How to Watch Pornography
  • 2021
    Skinned

    Skinned

    Skinned

    02021HD

    A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath. Five weigh in with personal recollections:...

    Skinned
  • 2018
    I Saw Him There

    I Saw Him There

    I Saw Him There

    02018HD

    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...

    I Saw Him There
  • 2023
    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    Nazareth

    02023HD

    A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one face at a time. Four figures on a hillside bear...

    Nazareth