Movies
- 2020
Zen Basketball
Zen Basketball02020HD
In a series of simple frames, the often misunderstood practice of Zen takes shape as basketball bliss. Now in retirement, the greatest defensive...
- 2018
Introduction to Alchemy
Introduction to Alchemy02018HD
Unable to leave my apartment universe and attend the Alchemy Film and Moving Image Fest in Scotland, I sent along this digital stand-in instead,...
- 2022
The Central Gesture
The Central Gesture02022HD
Based on a text by Lisa Robertson (from her bracing book Nilling), a meditation on how cities are bound not by geography but laws and rules designed...
- 2021
Postcards
Postcards02021HD
How to use this old technology of the postcard, with its marriage of image and text, its insistence that every exchange has two-sides which can never...
- 2019
Threshold
Threshold02019HD
A detourned love poem by Ocean Vuong remixed for Palestine. The root of it all is a calling, a voice, which is followed through Gaza markets and...
- 2019
Soft Animal Body
Soft Animal Body02019HD
This ten-minute video lecture was commissioned by Haema Svanesan and Marina DeMaio who are putting together a Buddhism and Art confab called In the...
- 2019
Be Your Dog
Be Your Dog02019HD
A meditation in two parts. The traveller lays up a set of headphones and tranforms his tropical setting into a concert stage, listening to an...
- 1996
Dear Madonna
Dear Madonna01996HD
Jason returns with another letter to Madonna, thanking her for letting him be her "mistress".
- 1994
Scattering Stars
Scattering Stars01994HD
A paean to light, a glittering bodice of a film that rapturously unfolds its subject with a shimmering luminosity.
- 2019
Gramsci’s Notebooks
Gramsci’s Notebooks02019HD
After a ruinous engagement, the unnamed narrator alights for Palermo in order to take up with his dead Italian friend, Antonio Gramsci. He was the...
- 2021
Feeling States
Feeling States02021HD
Short by Mike Hoolboom.
- 2018
The Bed and the Street
The Bed and the Street02018HD
A love story set in the global anti-austerity demonstrations. As citizens take back their streets, two women meet and fall in love. What geometry of...
- 2018
A Boy’s Life
A Boy’s Life02018HD
Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque...
- 2018
Lions
Lions02018HD
This miniature presents an extensive reflection on ways of watching, reception and rebellion against indoctrination and control. Making decisions...
- 2020
We Are Islands
We Are Islands02020HD
Based on texts gleaned from Catherine Bush’s novel Blaze Island, this multi-layered collage offers a fleeting love story on a distant shore....
- 2019
Father Auditions
Father Auditions02019HD
"Compilation" of five previous works of the director - Leaving Church, Damaged, 27 Thoughts About My Dad, Rain, Buffalo Death Mask - Father Auditions...
- 2019
27 Thoughts About My Father
27 Thoughts About My Father02019HD
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...
- 2017
Spectator
Spectator02017HD
Is it the oldest dream? Giving birth to my father. Shot on a single starry afternoon.
- 2014
Second Nature
Second Nature02014HD
A primatologist and sex researcher uncover love as a test case, while weighing in on Palestine, power and bonobos.
- 1987
Fat Film
Fat Film01987HD
A memory ritual performed in an enclosed space over twenty-four hours. Featuring dance, costume, lard, and a single performer. The film closes with...