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Michael Hoolboom (born 1 January 1959) 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. [1]
Description. A wordless film made of photographs taken from around the world. These briefly glimpsed serial portraits, arranged in sequences of patterned gestures, offer a flow of undreamt pleasures and ruins. “It starts by showing people without faces, and then we … Continue reading →. Interviews. Wind at Experimental Brasil Festival (July, 2023)
Ongoing remixology. Since 2000 there has been a steady drip of found footage bio docs. The animating question of community: how can I help you? Interviews with media artists for 3 decades. Monographs and books, written, edited, co-edited. Local ecologies. Volunteerism. Opening the door.
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).
I Measure My Life in Dogs (12 minutes, 2023) Wind (9:41 minutes, 2023) The Secret Place (3 minutes, 2023) The Central Gesture (1:43 minutes, 2023) Close-Up (1 minute, 2023) Freedom from Everything (80 minutes, 2022) Waves (64 minutes, 2022) New York State of Mind (13:40 minutes, 2022) Feeling States (8:18 minutes, 2022)
Feb 16, 2012 · Mike Hoolboom, prolific and versatile, emerged during the mid-1980s as one of the freshest and most energetic forces in English-Canadian experimental filmmaking.
Mike Hoolboom was born in 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a director and writer, known for Imitations of Life (2003), Judy Versus Capitalism (2020) and Letters from Home (1996).
