Mike Hoolboom Movies

Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain. Shiteater is a carefully hewn...

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

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

Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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...

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...

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 is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama...

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

An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found...

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

A reflection on colour in fifteen camera tests.

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

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

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...

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...

This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...