Mike Hoolboom Movies

Half-hour digest of Buddhist perception theory.

Part 3 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

Part 2 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

Part 7 of 9-part feature Imitations of Life (2003).

Part 6 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

Over a sea of bodies, ruminations float by on markets, class and precarity. The problem of work. How do we survive our own death?

For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice...

This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...

In a Red Cross hospital in Vietnam, the young white nurse tends his wounds. Drawn from the archives of the Red Cross in Geneva.

A tribute to the godmother of German experimental cinema Birgit Hein.

Mike Hoolboom reflects in 27 brief scenes on the life of his father, who died in June 2017. Using home movies, snapshots and found footage, he...

Part 5 of 7-part bio-feature Public Lighting (2004).

A monologue about AIDS, rendered in split-screens generously furbished with images from Terminator 2, science flicks, Michael Jackson and home...

Part of 1 of 7-part bio-collection feature Public Lighting (2004).

Begun in a three-week seminar at the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD) in October 2016, seventeen of us began an excavation together,...

A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

The main character is the title.

An afternoon idyll. How to listen to the language of the lakeshore plants, as they ripple in the mid-afternoon light? The story they have to tell...

Simon Weil wrote that attention is the rarest kind of generosity. How to extend this generosity to a single photograph, made in 1949 in the port city...