Mike Hoolboom Movies

In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

Part 3 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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...

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

An experimental documentary that takes as its starting point a nineteenth century farmhouse in Southern Ontario, Canada, and asks the question "what...

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

This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...

Hoolboom takes the music video for Madonna's "Justify My Love" and runs it alongside a transgressive letter to Madonna from her schoolmate, Jason.

Set in a Red Cross rehab centre in Vietnam, victims of the American war learn to walk on new prosthetic legs. The mystical faiths of destruction and...

A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

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...

How can we express the emotional experience of depression and suicide and overcome the stigmas associated with mental health? Sanguedolce’s...

A movie essay using theory fragments from porn studies pioneer Linda Williams, radical gender theorist Paul Preciado, feminist theorists Hortense...

Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

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

A found footage collection of 26 AIDS adverts. Freud uncovered the mysterious connection between language and bodies at the same moment that moving...

Part two of the nine-part compilation feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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...

Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".

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...