Mike Hoolboom Movie Trailers
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Listening Trailer (2021)
23 October 2021
Vancouver composer and sound ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp was the only woman to participate in the original version of the World Soundscape project that not only brought new ears to city life, but laid the foundation for noise bylaws/pollution standards, radically upending traditional notions of music and the role of the composer.
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group Trailer (2017)
01 November 2017
The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected and mythologized film centre in Canada.
Supernatural Power Trailer (2018)
10 November 2018
Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs.
All Fall Down Trailer (2009)
12 September 2009
An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what has been here before?
Land of Not Knowing Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s experimental documentary brings together four artists (including experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom), who speak with refreshing honesty about how thoughts of suicide have dominated their personal and creative lives.
Nazareth Trailer (2023)
04 December 2023
A return to the fateful year of 1948 in Israel, reframed by a single photograph that is taken up one face at a time.
Citizen Poet Trailer (2017)
02 November 2017
Based on Lisa Robertson’s The Nilling, the movie offers poetry as antidote to the exclusions of state and identity.
Writing Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).
Panic Bodies Trailer (1998)
10 October 1998
"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death.
Vacancy Trailer (1999)
14 August 1999
Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cultural heritage today.
After Victory Day Trailer (2020)
02 March 2020
The movie’s prelude visits Lenin’s home town of Ulyanovsk during Victory Day, the annual commemoration of WW2’s end, in an increasingly militarized spectacle of children and guns and then moves to anti-capitalist gestures in Strasbourg (France) where DIY collectives create new forms of contact and resistance.
Feast Trailer (2020)
21 August 2020
When he won his Giller Award, Saint Lucia poet/playwright Derek Walcott couldn’t make it, so Michael Ondaatje stood in his place and read Love After Love, the most beautiful poem I had ever heard.
Scattering Stars Trailer (1994)
14 August 1994
A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.
Birgit Hein Trailer (2023)
28 November 2023
A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.
Lover Man Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
The heart of the matter is friend and mentor Mike Cartmell in an outtake from Alan Zweig’s Vinyl (2000).
Mirrors Trailer (2015)
09 September 2015
Mirrors features a series of mirrors clipped from the movies of Ingmar Bergman. A mise-en-abyme, a reflection on reflections, in other words, an endless looking, or relooking.
After the American Election Trailer (2018)
22 October 2018
Based on dreams (waking and non-waking) by pals and acquaintances of noted American writer Lucy Corin, the night after the epochal US election of 2016.
After Drowning Trailer (2019)
22 May 2019
In this dramatic short, a refugee crosses the ocean to escape the ravages of war, but loses family along the way.
Credit Card Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
In a suite of interviews for his “second first feature” Godard submitted to the slings and arrows of North American media interrogators with polite hostility and a bristling intelligence.
White Museum Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
“The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike Hoolboom.
Antigone Trailer (1990)
27 December 1990
“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers, Antigone is both a documentary about searching for meaning and validity in the old story, and a fiction about the failure to find any value but parody.
Threshold Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and tunnels until the cause of liberation can be seen clearly and embraced.
Amy Trailer (2004)
31 August 2004
'Amy, is narrated by a model (Liisa Repo-Martell) who’s painfully uncomfortable with her own body and “old woman’s” face.
Farrago Trailer (2015)
12 July 2015
In 1984, Mike Cartmell began Narratives of Egypt, a four-part series that deals with the father in Prologue: Infinite Obscure, the son in In the form of the letter “X”, the lover in Cartouche, and wraps it all up in Farrago, a word meaning: a medley, a heap of fragments.
Pensão Globo Trailer (1997)
08 October 1997
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 aimless excursions through the city.
Valentine's Day Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
In the near future, Canada is at war with Quebec, battles are determined by television ratings, and weapons are sponsored by McDonald's and IBM.
Promises Trailer (2024)
27 October 2024
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 scar or a position of the body.
How to Watch Pornography Trailer (2022)
30 October 2022
A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense Spillers, Karen Barad and more.
Scaling Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
A beguiling, humorous presentation of cinematic impermanence. A naked man (Hoolboom), tilted 90 degrees by the camera angle, paints a black shape on a white wall; meanwhile, in a second, superimposed image, he re-paints it in white.
Imitations of Life Trailer (2003)
24 June 2003
Imitations of life consist of ten chapters, each one of which has an individual intonation and cinematographic style.
Veterans Trailer (2024)
30 November 2024
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 their duties) who could not stop performing compulsive and repetitive gestures.
Fascination Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
“In order to take the next step (not forward or backwards, but only: to go on) it is often necessary to lean on a picture made by someone else, sometimes a word will do, a gesture, the look on a stranger’s face.
Aftermath Trailer (2018)
04 May 2018
A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo.
Incident Reports Trailer (2016)
20 April 2016
After a purported bike accident, the nameless amnesiac undertakes audio-visual therapy by producing a series of one-minute shots through the streets of Toronto.
Sleepy Haven Trailer (1993)
14 August 1993
Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEEPY HAVEN materializes fantasies of an erotic daydream; the film is a cocktail that merges Müller's own shots and found footage like a love act.
Letters From Home Trailer (1996)
07 September 1996
An overwhelming and luminescent reflection on death, AIDS and living, Letters from Home is a compelling montage of mini-portraits intercut with found footage, home movies, super-8 drama and pixilated imagery.
House of Pain Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
A hybrid of DeSade and Dali, House of Pain is a nightmare that takes place between sleep and death, where the performers appear as mute hallucinations.
Justify My Love Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.
Sundays Trailer (2021)
01 January 2021
An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell – of collaboration, cooperation, contamination – leaks into their merely human observers.
From the Archives of the Red Cross Trailer (2017)
05 October 2017
Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together, immersing ourselves in a selection of Red Cross shorts made over nearly a century in countries round the world.
Beacon Trailer (2002)
14 August 2002
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 the sea.
Wind Trailer (2023)
04 July 2023
Based on an interview with Google’s senior software engineer Blake Lemoine and Google AI LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications).
Ice Cream Trailer (2021)
02 March 2021
An ice cream factory worker reflects on AIDS and the new capitalism. "A move from a regime of cultural production ordered by authorship, originality and signature to one ordered by the brand, branding and simulation.
Model Citizens Trailer (2021)
28 October 2021
The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which was shot around 1900 in London, restored, and coloured by artificial intelligence.
Letter to Fred Trailer (2022)
25 July 2022
A letter from my friend Alfred Vander. Though when we met he was Fred Pelon, anarchist super 8 filmmaker, a prolific machine of thoughts and pictures, growing fungi on film, and on the archaic behaviours of the state.
Identification Trailer (2017)
27 January 2017
Shot in the murk and fog of a breakdown. Friends jam, a body lies on the ground, James Baldwin visits his father for the last time.
Be Your Dog Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
A meditation in two parts. The traveller lays up a set of headphones and tranforms his tropical setting into a concert stage, listening to an acoustic cover of the Stooges’ hit which gives this movie its title, the one ranked 438 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 500 best of all time.
Visiting Hours Trailer (2017)
21 October 2017
How to show the long bus ride began in the dark to visit the husband in jail? The repetition which is new every morning.
Brand Trailer (1989)
03 March 1989
BRAND begins like a child's yawn, a fairy tale with an incredible beginning. Brand blends two themes into a fugue of questions and answers.
Escape in Canada Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
The cross-country travelogue which is the basis of this film was made in the fourties. Sponsored by the Canadian government, it is pitched towards an American understanding, unfolding the blank geography of its northern neighbour as a playground for the leisure class, its untamed wilds held in check by the relentless survey of the Mounties.
Instructions for Robots Trailer (2018)
24 August 2018
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 of Artificial Intelligence robots programmed with a full range of emotions.
Faultlines Trailer (1998)
27 December 1998
“In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages the paradox of a journey that loses all meaning once it reaches its end.
Safety Film Collection Trailer (2014)
01 January 2014
A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving pictures provided new behavior modellings.
Passing On Trailer (1998)
19 March 1998
Passing On, a lyrical, typically confessional effort that encapsulates what's preceded it. Hoolboom's dance with death — a motif acknowledged in the medieval woodcut segues between segments — resonates in double-exposed shots of anonymous people simply crossing a square, some of them "real," others shown as faint, literal "ghosts" coexisting with those still in the temporal present.