Mike Hoolboom Movies

  • 2024
    Veterans

    Veterans

    Veterans

    02024HD

    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
  • 2024
    Promises

    Promises

    Promises

    02024HD

    Portrait moments collected across the world carry powerful situations and stand out from the grip of the image with an expression, a tear, a flame, a...

    Promises
  • 1992
    Mexico

    Mexico

    Mexico

    5.81992HD

    "In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...

    Mexico
  • 1994
    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    Frank's Cock

    51994HD

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

    Frank's Cock
  • 1999
    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    Vacancy

    5.51999HD

    Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today. It is a place as...

    Vacancy
  • 2003
    Imitations of Life

    Imitations of Life

    Imitations of Life

    62003HD

    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
  • 2002
    Tom

    Tom

    Tom

    82002HD

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

    Tom
  • 1996
    Letters From Home

    Letters From Home

    Letters From Home

    41996HD

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

    Letters From Home
  • 1993
    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    Sleepy Haven

    31993HD

    Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...

    Sleepy Haven
  • 2022
    Skinship

    Skinship

    Skinship

    22022HD

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

    Skinship
  • 2024
    Body Electric

    Body Electric

    Body Electric

    02024HD

    A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from...

    Body Electric
  • 2024
    Rain

    Rain

    Rain

    02024HD

    One hundred children were dying every day in Gaza when I made this hopeless poem of hope. How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming...

    Rain
  • 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
  • 2023
    Birgit Hein

    Birgit Hein

    Birgit Hein

    02023HD

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

    Birgit Hein
  • 2023
    Winter

    Winter

    Winter

    02023HD

    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...

    Winter
  • 2009
    Mark

    Mark

    Mark

    72009HD

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

    Mark
  • 2023
    Wind

    Wind

    Wind

    02023HD

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

    Wind
  • 2004
    Hiro

    Hiro

    Hiro

    1.52004HD

    Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

    Hiro
  • 2002
    Beacon

    Beacon

    Beacon

    92002HD

    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
  • 1997
    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    Pensão Globo

    21997HD

    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