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CANADA | 70 minutes | 2016

Intuitive camera work depicting jam-packed urban life and philosophical comments make up the latest offering from this icon of Canadian avant-garde cinema. A fiercely independent artist and video maker, Hoolboom continues his exploration of human behaviour in reaction to the immediate environment. A series of still shots of urban Toronto life combined with brief remarks by the artist make up the new outing by one of the most eclectic Canadian filmmakers out there. A richly interpreted visual exploration that questions our intimate relationship with modernity.

IN PRESENCE OF THE DIRECTOR

Programs

Sunday October 8, 2017

Program #92
19:00
Cinéma du Parc 1

Saturday October 14, 2017

Program #282
19:10
Cinéma du Parc 2

Mike Hoolboom

Born: Korean War, the pill, hydrogen bomb. 1980s: Film emulsion fetish and diary salvos. Schooling at the Funnel: collective avant-geek cine utopia. 1990s: experimentalist features, transgressive psychodramas, questions of nationalism. 2000s: Seroconversion cyborg (life after death), film-to-video transcode: feature-length-found-footage bios. Fringe media archaeologist: copyleft author 7 books, co/editor 12 books. Curator: 30 programs + www.fringeonline.ca Occasional employments: artistic director Images Fest, fringe distribution Canadian Filmmakers. 80 film/vids, most redacted. 10 features. 70 awards, www.mikehoolboom.com

Film/video (selected)
1980 Song for Mixed Choir (8 minutes)
1981 Now, Yours (10 minutes)
1986 White Museum (32 minutes)
1991 Indusium (11 minutes)
1992 Mexico (with Steve Sanguedolce) (35 minutes)
1993 Escape in Canada (9 minutes); Frank's Cock (8 minutes)
1995 House of Pain (50 minutes)
1996 Letters From Home (15 minutes)
1998 Panic Bodies (70 minutes)
2002 Tom (50 minutes)
2003 Imitations of Life (70 minutes); In the Dark (8 minutes)
2004 Public Lighting (76 minutes)
2006 Fascination (70 minutes)
2009 Mark (70 minutes)
2012 Lacan Palestine (70 minutes)
2013 Buffalo Death Mask (23 minutes)
2015 Scrapbook (18 minutes)
2016 Incident Reports (70 minutes); We Make Couples (60 minutes)

contact

  • Mike Hoolboom

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