Mike Hoolboom Movies

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?...

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

Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally shot in Brownwood, Texas in 2009, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal...

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...

Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...

Part 8 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Part 5 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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

Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.

A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo. This quartet of hauntologies...

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

Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

A life lived in cars and a last race with the devil...

“Eternity takes the form of a letter about fighting disease and practicing loss, superimposed over haunting images of old teacups, people in...

Queering the haj. A man recollects a moment (was it any longer than that?) in the aptly named city of Mecca. A conversation ensues in the crowd. The...

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,...