Mike Hoolboom
Directing
Born January 1, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
Filmography
White Harlem
Rain
Body Electric
Nazareth
Birgit Hein
Winter
Wind
Close-Up
The Central Gesture
Waves
Skinship
Letter to Fred
Freedom from Everything
Postcards
Model Citizens
The Guy on the Bed
Cut
For the Birds
Feeling States
Ice Cream
Skinned
Haifa
Sundays
We Are Islands
TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
Feast
Zen Basketball
After Victory Day
Judy Versus Capitalism
Language, not territory
Gramsci’s Notebooks
(S)he Said that
After Drowning
I Touched Her Legs remix
Father Auditions
27 Thoughts About My Father
Threshold
Lover Man
Soft Animal Body
Credit Card
Be Your Dog
Supernatural Power
The Bed and the Street
Lions
After the American Election
I Saw Him There
Instructions for Robots
A Boy’s Life
Aftermath
3 Dreams of Horses
Ghost
Citizen Poet
Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group
Himself
Nursing History
Visiting Hours
Spectator
From the Archives of the Red Cross
Colour My World
Identification
In 1974
Introduction to Mountains
Incident Reports
We Make Couples
Land of Not Knowing
Himself
Mirrors
Farrago
Second Nature
Safety Picture Collection
Safety Film Collection
Buffalo Death Mask
Himself
Lacan Palestine
Forest Walk
5 Klesas
All Fall Down
Himself
Mark
Fascination
In the Theatre
Public Lighting
Glass
Tradition
Hiro
Imitations of Life
Rain
The Invisible Man
In the Dark
Last Thoughts
Portrait
The Game
Imitation of Life
Beacon
Writing
In the City
Jack
Secret
Vacancy
Narrator (voice)
Hoolboom
Himself
Hey Madonna
Damaged
Faultlines
(Voice)
Panic Bodies
In My Car
Positiv
In the Future
Pensão Globo
(voice)
Eternity
Dear Madonna
Moucle's Island
House of Pain
Scattering Stars
Frank's Cock
Sleepy Haven
1+1+1
Escape in Canada
Shiteater
In the Cinema
Mexico
Antigone
Sugar Maple Stand
Scaling