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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).
In Frank’s Cock, Mike Hoolboom, one of Canada’s most prolific experimental filmmakers, uses multiple screens as a backdrop to a man, facing the camera, telling the story of a relationship severed by AIDS.
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).
