Mike Hoolboom Filmes

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...

A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...

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...

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

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

Part 4 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Made on a sunny afternoon. A last stand of burning light. Shot in 1985, released in 1990 with a soundtrack by Kaiser Nietzsche (John Kamevaar, Thomas...