Mike Hoolboom Movies
- 2024
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...
- 2024
Promises
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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...
- 1992
Mexico
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"In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug. Hoolboom's deadpan, incisive voice-over offers...
- 1994
Frank's Cock
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A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.
- 1999
Vacancy
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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...
- 2003
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,...
- 2002
Tom
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Portrait of gay filmmaker and Parkinson's sufferer Tom Chomont.
- 1996
Letters From Home
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An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found...
- 1993
Sleepy Haven
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Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic...
- 2022
Skinship
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Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?
- 2024
Body Electric
Body Electric02024HD
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...
- 2024
Rain
Rain02024HD
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...
- 2023
Nazareth
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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...
- 2023
Birgit Hein
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A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.
- 2023
Winter
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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...
- 2009
Mark
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This moving film tells the story of Hoolboom's close friend and collaborator Mark Karbusicky, who unexpectedly committed suicide in 2007. Interviews...
- 2023
Wind
Wind02023HD
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications)....
- 2004
Hiro
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Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).
- 2002
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...
- 1997
Pensão Globo
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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...