Mike Hoolboom Movies

Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs. The mystical faiths of destruction and...

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

An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

The movie is animated by a question. Can we see what we see? I think of what is close at hand, the painting on the wall, book titles shouting from...

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

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...

A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.

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

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

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

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...

Film is made out of gelatin that comes from horses. They’re waiting to be slaughtered, so that pictures can be made. Many years ago we learned...

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

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...

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...

Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore....

After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...