Mike Hoolboom Movies

The epilogue of the 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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. The first...

Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.

Short by Mike Hoolboom.

Part 9 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

The amazement of people as recorded in early films is the central motif of the film appropriated from the Lumiere brothers’ collections which...

This Marxist love story asks: could the couple also be a form of resistance? Essay notes on marriage, microcinema, and the art of projection. With...

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...

In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...

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...

Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

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

Lensed in Ohio’s Broadview Developmental Center in 1967 by secret camera genius and audio visual healer Jeffrey Paull, Scrapbook tells the...

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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. Colin had...

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?...

Devils fall in love in Seattle in a black comedy of sex, machines and flight. Photographed a frame at a time over three days, 1+1+1 shows us the...

After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...