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 op IFFR
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What Talking Means
Mike Cartmell | 8' | USA | -
A personal essay that forms part of Cartmell’s work-in-progress, Shipwreck Theory. -
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Fascination
Mike Hoolboom | 85' | Canada | World première
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… -
School
Mike Hoolboom | 52' | Canada | World premiere
Mike Hoolboom collected three reports, different in form, atmosphere and substance, of events at three schools in Cleveland, Los Angeles and Fallujah. -
Sleepy Haven
Matthias Müller | 15' | Germany | -
About the sensuality of the naked torso of a sailor. Masterful found-footage adaptation. -
Imitations of Life
Mike Hoolboom | 75' | Canada | World premiere
Ingenious and very filmic investigation of the portrayal of childhood memories. Freud as video. -
27 thoughts about my father
Mike Hoolboom | 25' | Canada | World premiere
Poignant portrait of the filmmaker’s father, who died last year, told in 27 brief contemplations, including personal moments and exceptional arc -
Judy Versus Capitalism
Mike Hoolboom | 63' | Canada | World premiere
Canadian feminist, activist and journalist Judy Rebick reflects on her political and personal life in this experimental, biographical portrait. -
Identification
Mike Hoolboom | 29' | Canada | World premiere
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… -
We Make Couples
Mike Hoolboom | 57' | Canada | World premiere
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