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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Mike Hoolboom

Mike HOOLBOOM (1959, Canada) began as a filmmaker with his father’s Super-8 camera at a young age. He explored many experimental film strategies and eventually established his name with the short film White Museum (1986). Hoolboom worked as artistic director of the Images Festival and experimental film coordinator at the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. His 2015 short movie Scrapbook won Best Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In 2017, he received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Filmografie

(selection) Song for Mixed Choir (1980, short), Now, Yours (1981, short), White Museum (1986, short), Indusium (1991, short), Mexico (1992, short, co-dir), Escape in Canada (1993, short), House of Pain (1995, short), Letters from Home (1996, short), Panic Bodies (1998, doc), Tom (2002, short), Imitations of Life (2003), In the Dark (2003, short), Public Lighting (2004), Fascination (2006, doc), Mark (2009, doc), Lacan Palestine (2012, doc), Buffalo Death Mask (2013, short), Scrapbook (2015, short doc), We Make Couples (2016, mid-length), Identification (2017, short), Aftermath (2018), 3 Dreams of Horses (2018, short), 27 thoughts about my father (2019, short), Father Auditions (2019), Zen Basketball (2020, short), Judy Versus Capitalism (2020, mid-length)

Mike Hoolboom at IFFR

  • Sleepy haven

    Homo-romantic seaman’s film. An ode to Jean Genet.

    • main programme

  • What Talking Means

    A personal essay that forms part of Cartmell’s work-in-progress, Shipwreck Theory.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Fascination

    Metabiopic about the Canadian pioneer of the video scene and icon of the drag scene Colin Campbell who died in 2001. And therefore also about the deve

    • Vita Brevis

  • School

    Mike Hoolboom collected three reports, different in form, atmosphere and substance, of events at three schools in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Fallujah.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • Sleepy Haven

    About the sensuality of the naked torso of a sailor. Masterful found-footage adaptation.

    • on the waterfront new films

  • Imitations of Life

    Ingenious and very filmic investigation of the portrayal of childhood memories. Freud as video.

    • True Stories

  • 27 thoughts about my father

    Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s father, who died last year, told in 27 brief contemplations, including personal moments and exceptional arc

    • Ammodo Tiger Short Competition

  • Judy Versus Capitalism

    Canadian feminist, activist and journalist Judy Rebick reflects on her political and personal life in this experimental, biographical portrait.

    • Bright Future Mid-length

  • Identification

    A story of the city in sixteen acts, recurring scenes with variations, of loss and humour. A look at the colour that is not a colour. Remembering Char

    • Black Rebels

  • We Make Couples

    We Make Couples is a master documentary maker’s six-years-in-the-making Marxist love story. Crammed full of thoughts on cinema, politics and the pleas

    • Bright Future
    • Bright Future Mid-length