Mike Hoolboom
Directing · Born Jan 1, 1959 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Michael "Mike" Hoolboom 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. Although he continued to produce films, his rate of production improved drastically after he was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 or 1989; this gave a "new urgency" to his works. Since then he has made dozens of films, two of which have won Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. His films have also featured in more than 200 film festivals worldwide.
Directed
Body Electric
2026
White Harlem
2024
Rain
2024
Nazareth
2023
Birgit Hein
2023
Winter
2023
Wind
2023
Close-Up
2022
The Central Gesture
2022
Waves
2022
Skinship
20222.0
Letter to Fred
2022
Freedom from Everything
2022
Postcards
2021
Model Citizens
2021
The Guy on the Bed
2021
Cut
2021
For the Birds
2021
Feeling States
2021
Ice Cream
2021
Skinned
2021
Haifa
2021
Sundays
2021
We Are Islands
2020
TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)
2020
Feast
2020
Zen Basketball
2020
After Victory Day
2020
Judy Versus Capitalism
2020
Language, not territory
2019
Gramsci’s Notebooks
2019
(S)he Said that
2019
After Drowning
2019
I Touched Her Legs remix
2019
Father Auditions
2019
27 Thoughts About My Father
2019
Threshold
2019
Lover Man
2019
Soft Animal Body
2019
Credit Card
2019
Be Your Dog
2019
How to Watch Pornography
2019
Supernatural Power
2018
The Bed and the Street
2018
Lions
2018
After the American Election
2018
I Saw Him There
2018
Instructions for Robots
2018
A Boy’s Life
2018
Aftermath
2018
3 Dreams of Horses
20174.0
Ghost
2017
Citizen Poet
2017
Nursing History
2017
Visiting Hours
2017
Spectator
2017
From the Archives of the Red Cross
2017
Colour My World
2017
Identification
2017
In 1974
2017
Introduction to Mountains
2016
Incident Reports
2016
We Make Couples
2016
Mirrors
2015
Farrago
2015
Second Nature
2014
Safety Picture Collection
2014
Safety Film Collection
2014
Buffalo Death Mask
20136.0
Lacan Palestine
2012
Forest Walk
2011
5 Klesas
2010
Mark
20097.0
Fascination
2006
Amy
2004
In the Theatre
2004
Public Lighting
2004
Glass
2004
Tradition
2004
Hiro
20041.5
Imitations of Life
20036.7
Rain
2003
The Invisible Man
2003
In the Dark
2003
Last Thoughts
2003
Portrait
2003
The Game
2003
Imitation of Life
2003
Writing
2001
In the City
2000
Jack
2000
Secret
2000
Hey Madonna
1999
Damaged
1999
Panic Bodies
19989.0
In My Car
1998
Positiv
1998
In the Future
1998
Eternity
1996
Dear Madonna
199610.0
Moucle's Island
19953.3
House of Pain
19953.0
Frank's Cock
19945.2
Justify My Love
1994
1+1+1
1993
Escape in Canada
1993
Shiteater
1993
In the Cinema
1992
Mexico
19925.8
Sugar Maple Stand
1990
Scaling
1988
