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Originally made in 16mm, as the fourth part of the feature-length wordless psychodrama collection House of Pain.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

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...

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 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).

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets...

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

Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

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

In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators...

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

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

In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

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...

Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

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 four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies...

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

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...