Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2024
    Veterans

    Veterans

    Veterans

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    How does the body remember? Doctors began treating tens of thousands troops (those who were not shot by their own comrades for failing to perform...

    Veterans
  • 2003
    Imitations of Life

    Imitations of Life

    Imitations of Life

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    Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style. The chapters: In the Future,...

    Imitations of Life
  • 1994
    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

    Valentine's Day

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    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
  • 2002
    Tom

    Tom

    Tom

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    Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.

    Tom
  • 2020
    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

    Judy Versus Capitalism

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    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
  • 2017
    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

    Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group

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    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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

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

    Frank's Cock
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

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    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
  • 2015
    Mirrors

    Mirrors

    Mirrors

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    Mirrors features a series of mirrors clipped from the movies of Ingmar Bergman. A mise-en-abyme, a reflection on reflections, in other words, an...

    Mirrors
  • 2021
    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    For the Birds

    02021HD

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

    For the Birds
  • 2018
    After the American Election

    After the American Election

    After the American Election

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    Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of...

    After the American Election
  • 2022
    Waves

    Waves

    Waves

    02022HD

    “After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy...

    Waves
  • 2018
    The Bed and the Street

    The Bed and the Street

    The Bed and the Street

    02018HD

    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...

    The Bed and the Street
  • 2018
    Instructions for Robots

    Instructions for Robots

    Instructions for Robots

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    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...

    Instructions for Robots
  • 2017
    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

    From the Archives of the Red Cross

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    Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together,...

    From the Archives of the Red Cross
  • 2012
    Lacan Palestine

    Lacan Palestine

    Lacan Palestine

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    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
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    Wind

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    Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....

    Wind
  • 1988
    Scaling

    Scaling

    Scaling

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    Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

    Scaling
  • 2004
    Amy

    Amy

    Amy

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

    Amy