Mike Hoolboom
Birthday: 1959-01-01
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Biography: Michael "Mike" Hoolboom is a Canadian independent, experimental filmmaker. Having begun filmmaking at an early age, Hoolboom released his first major work, a "film that's not quite a film" entitled White Museum, in 1986. Although he continued to produce films, his rate of production improved drastically after he was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 or 1989; this gave a "new urgency" to his works. Since then he has made dozens of films, two of which have won Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. His films have also featured in more than 200 film festivals worldwide.
Movies
How to Watch Pornography
A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theori...
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Faultlines
“In a tapestry of migratory luck, artifacts and shells, a mixed choir of images and sounds engages t...
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Antigone
“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a gro...
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Pensão Globo
A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão G...
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Vacancy
Brasília, the "city of hope", "the ultimate utopia of the 20th century" , is being conserved as a cu...
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All Fall Down
An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in South...
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Land of Not Knowing
How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas assoc...
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Sleepy Haven
Matthias Müller's SLEEPY HAVEN is explicitly taking up the spirit of Kenneth Anger's FIREWORKS. SLEE...
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Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
The explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative tha...
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Scattering Stars
A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmeri...
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Buffalo Death Mask
For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plagu...
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Hoolboom
"Hoolboom" is a film that Arts Toronto commissioned local filmmaker Wrik Mead to make based on his i...
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