Mike Hoolboom

Known for: Directing
Born: January 1, 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Movies: 142

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.

Best-Known Movies

5.2

Frank's Cock

1994

4.2

Sleepy Haven

1993

5.8

Mexico

1992

5.0

Pensão Globo

1997

6.7

Vacancy

1999

6.7

Imitations of Life

2003

3.3

Moucle's Island

1995

3.0

House of Pain

1995

8.0

Beacon

2002

6.0

Buffalo Death Mask

2013

Filmography

2019	How to Watch Pornography	Director
2017	Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group	Himself
2016	Land of Not Knowing	Himself
2013	Buffalo Death Mask	Himself
2009	All Fall Down	Himself
1999	Vacancy	Narrator (voice)
1999	Hoolboom	Himself
1998	Faultlines	(Voice)
1997	Pensão Globo	(voice)
1994	Scattering Stars
1993	Sleepy Haven
1990	Antigone

Directing, Writing & Producing

2024	Veterans	Director
2024	Promises	Director
2024	White Harlem	Director
2024	Rain	Director
2024	Body Electric	Director
2023	Nazareth	Director
2023	Birgit Hein	Director
2023	Winter	Director
2023	Wind	Director
2022	Close-Up	Director
2022	The Central Gesture	Director
2022	New York State of Mind	Director
2022	Waves	Director
2022	Skinship	Director
2022	Letter to Fred	Director
2022	Freedom from Everything	Director
2021	Postcards	Director
2021	Model Citizens	Director
2021	Listening	Director
2021	The Guy on the Bed	Director
2021	Cut	Director
2021	Soft Landings for Capitalism	Director
2021	23 Thoughts About My Mother	Director
2021	For the Birds	Director
2021	Feeling States	Director
2021	Ice Cream	Director
2021	Skinned	Screenplay, Director
2021	Haifa	Director
2021	Sundays	Director
2020	We Are Islands	Director
2020	TOUCH Memory (VIETNAM)	Director, Producer
2020	Feast	Director
2020	Zen Basketball	Director
2020	After Victory Day	Director
2020	Judy Versus Capitalism	Director
2019	Language, not territory	Director
2019	Gramsci’s Notebooks	Director
2019	(S)he Said that	Director
2019	After Drowning	Director
2019	I Touched Her Legs remix	Director
2019	Father Auditions	Director
2019	27 Thoughts About My Father	Producer, Director
2019	Threshold	Director
2019	Be Your Dog	Director
2019	Lover Man	Director
2019	Soft Animal Body	Director
2019	Credit Card	Director
2019	How to Watch Pornography	Director
2018	Introduction to Alchemy	Director
2018	Supernatural Power	Director, Writer
2018	The Bed and the Street	Producer, Director
2018	Lions	Director
2018	After the American Election	Producer, Director
2018	I Saw Him There	Director
2018	Instructions for Robots	Director
2018	A Boy’s Life	Director
2018	Aftermath	Director
2017	3 Dreams of Horses	Director
2017	Ghost	Producer, Director, Writer
2017	Citizen Poet	Director, Producer
2017	Nursing History	Director, Writer
2017	Visiting Hours	Producer, Director
2017	Spectator	Director
2017	From the Archives of the Red Cross	Director
2017	Colour My World	Director
2017	Identification	Producer, Director
2017	In 1974	Producer, Director
2017	Subway Stops	Producer, Director
2016	Introduction to Mountains	Director
2016	Incident Reports	Director
2016	We Make Couples	Director
2015	Mirrors	Director
2015	Farrago	Director
2015	Scrapbook	Director
2014	Second Nature	Writer, Producer, Director
2014	Safety Picture Collection	Director
2014	Safety Film Collection	Director
2013	Buffalo Death Mask	Director
2012	Lacan Palestine	Producer, Director, Writer
2011	Forest Walk	Director
2010	5 Klesas	Director
2009	Mark	Director
2006	Fascination	Director
2004	Amy	Director
2004	In the Theatre	Director
2004	Public Lighting	Director
2004	Glass	Director
2004	Tradition	Director
2004	Hiro	Director
2003	Imitations of Life	Director, Writer
2003	Rain	Director
2003	In the Dark	Director
2003	The Invisible Man	Director
2003	The Game	Director
2003	Last Thoughts	Director
2003	Portrait	Director
2003	Imitation of Life	Director
2002	Beacon	Writer
2002	Tom	Director
2001	Writing	Director
2000	In the City	Director
2000	Jack	Director
2000	Secret	Director
1999	Hey Madonna	Director
1999	Damaged	Director
1999	Hoolboom	Writer
1998	Panic Bodies	Director, Screenplay, Producer
1998	Passing On	Director
1998	In My Car	Director
1998	Positiv	Director
1998	In the Future	Director
1996	Eternity	Director
1996	Letters From Home	Director
1996	Dear Madonna	Director
1995	Moucle's Island	Director
1995	House of Pain	Director
1994	Frank's Cock	Writer, Director
1994	Justify My Love	Director
1994	Valentine's Day	Director, Writer, Producer
1993	Escape in Canada	Director
1993	Escape in Canada	Director
1993	1+1+1	Director
1993	Shiteater	Director
1992	In the Cinema	Director
1992	Mexico	Director
1990	Sugar Maple Stand	Director
1989	Brand	Director
1988	Scaling	Director
1987	Fat Film	Director
1986	White Museum	Director

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