Mike Hoolboom Movie Trailers
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Imitation of Life Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
Part 9 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).
The Bed and the Street Trailer (2018)
28 October 2018
A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love.
Mexico Trailer (1992)
01 January 1992
"In Mexico, experimental filmmakers Hoolboom and Steve Sanguedolce set out to dissect the travel bug)
Fat Film Trailer (1987)
14 March 1987
A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer.
Eternity Trailer (1996)
10 October 1996
“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in boats and water.
New York State of Mind Trailer (2022)
30 October 2022
In his essay on fossil capitalism and the high price of cheap energy, Mike Hoolboom revives New York from the beginning of the last century.
Damaged Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
A retrospective based on an introspective vision, this stream of still pictures, unfolding to the rhythm of the voice-over (delivered by Steve Reinke), portrays a man who visually exposes his psychological “faults.
Skinned Trailer (2021)
03 January 2021
A terrible virus finally brings down the internet, and humans look out from the wreckage in the aftermath.
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.
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.
Introduction to Alchemy Trailer (2018)
25 November 2018
Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead, composed and commissioned as an introduction to Aftermath, a four-part, feature-length found footage bio-pic.
Moucle's Island Trailer (1995)
31 December 1995
“Panic Bodies consists of six parts or chapters, varying in length and style. Each suggests a new approach to these returning questions: what does it mean to have a body; to be a body, and what does this body want? Hoolboom appears in the framing chapters, and in between others take his place, submitting their bodies to a probing research.
I Touched Her Legs remix Trailer (2019)
26 March 2019
Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake.
Haifa Trailer (2021)
01 January 2021
Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city of Haifa, in the new state of Israel? There are three soldiers from the Haganah watching over a Palestinian father and his three sons.
Public Lighting Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
How do we tell the story of a life? What cruel reduction of an image will stand (in the obituary, the family photo album, the memory of friends) for the years between a grave and a difficult birth? Public Lighting examines the current media obsession with biography, offering up “the six different kinds of personality” (the obsessive, the narcissist) as case studies and miniatures, possible examples.
Postcards Trailer (2021)
14 December 2021
How to use this old technology of the postcard, with its marriage of image and text, its insistence that every exchange has two-sides which can never be considered at the same time, to write oneself back into the world? The traveller alights in Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, even in Canada, finding words for the old wounds, sitting for a portrait in the middle of the city, out of doors, alone in a crowd.
Waves Trailer (2022)
13 October 2022
“After the death of my mother, I began a suite of women superstar portraits. They were scientists, poets and activists, a second family busy inventing new forms of relationship, even of social organisation.
Spectator Trailer (2017)
20 October 2017
Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
Gramsci’s Notebooks Trailer (2019)
28 November 2019
After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci.
Second Nature Trailer (2014)
15 October 2014
A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.
Colour My World Trailer (2017)
19 May 2017
Three-part colour inquiry. Questions adapted from Frederick Douglass to Jericho Brown bring the hurt.
In the Theatre Trailer (2004)
01 January 2004
Commissioned for The Colin Campbell Sessions by Lisa Steele at Vtape, one of a half dozen shorts made in tribute to one of our video dads.
I Saw Him There Trailer (2018)
22 October 2018
Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca.
In the Dark Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.
(S)he Said that Trailer (2019)
17 October 2019
An illustrated lecture, with digressive overlays. Remixology meets biopower.
The Invisible Man Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
The journey of a someone in search of his roots. He is pursued by his childhood self who has already written his own future, and foretells the amnesia which will doom this traveling.
The Guy on the Bed Trailer (2021)
19 September 2021
News from another pandemic, the one that "changed everything" before it fell out of the news cycle and collective memory, except for the newly infected or those who, like myself, managed a new life after death.
Close-Up Trailer (2022)
25 November 2022
Tasked to produce a short intro to my feature-length essay Cut, I turned to the origins of the close-up, in a scene featuring camera person Billy Bitzer and director D.
Ghost Trailer (2017)
02 November 2017
How to say good-bye to friends? How to keep from becoming a ghost in the old streets of the Czech Republic, at once too strange and familiar? Let’s step inside the old scenes of love (which are also the prelude to love’s betrayal) before animal rescue can offer consolations.
Lions Trailer (2018)
25 October 2018
This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control.
Safety Picture 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.
Hey Madonna Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Scenes from Madonna: Truth or Dare and the music video for Madonna's "Vogue" along with other various videos are spliced together with a letter from a former sexual partner of Madonna's scrolling on the bottom of the screen.
Introduction to Mountains Trailer (2016)
08 December 2016
Based on Dogen’s Mountains and Rivers Sutra, written in 13th century Japan. Here are a few words of introduction spoken by the artist.
Buffalo Death Mask Trailer (2013)
24 March 2013
For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV.
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.
How to Watch Pornography Trailer (2019)
01 January 2019
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.
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.
27 Thoughts About My Father Trailer (2019)
26 January 2019
Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he creates a portrait of a exceedingly clever, yet evanescent father figure haunted by the war that sent his own father to a concentration camp.
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.
Judy Versus Capitalism Trailer (2020)
30 January 2020
A bio-doc about my pal Judy Rebick: iconic second wave Canadian feminist, radical activist, journalist and writer.
Frank's Cock Trailer (1994)
24 July 1994
A gay man reminisces about his deceased lover, a victim of AIDS.
Rain Trailer (2024)
01 January 2024
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 what we feared? How to leave behind every notion of the chosen few, and embrace the ones along the way, finding a promised land in each other.
Freedom from Everything Trailer (2022)
29 April 2022
Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances.
Winter Trailer (2023)
26 September 2023
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 the choir on the shelf.