Interviews
Happiness is Political with Vicky Moufawad-Paul and Jorge Lozano (July 2019)Mike Hoolboom, Jorge Lozano and Vicky Moufawad-Paul in conversation A Space Gallery, June 25, 2019 Vicky: First I’d like to acknowledge that we’re operating on the land of the Huron-Wendat, the Haudenosaunee and the Mississaugas of the New Credit. We … Continue reading
Essays
The Screen Touches Back (Sept 2019)The Screen Touches Back by Mike Hoolboom and Alena Koroleva Draft notes for Alena Koroleva’s 4-part program The Screen Touches Back, presented at Message to Man Festival, St Petersburg, Russia Sept. 14-21 2019 My most important memories are not my … Continue reading
Essays
Benefit of the Doubt: Rotterdam Shorts (February 2019)POV Magazine, Spring 2019 Culled from an exhaustive comb through thousands of movies and festival visits, International Film Festival Rotterdam rolled out 250 shorts in its latest edition, featuring a mixmaster blend of traditional vanguardisms, bold hybrids and global voices. … Continue reading
On Artists
Josephine MassarellaMemories of Josie There are so many movies I want to make. JM She was Josie, José, Josepina, Josephine Maria Massarella, Hamilton’s favourite fringe movie artist, a filmmaker’s filmmaker. Supermom, daughter, sister. Her work was precise and immaculate, born inside … Continue reading
Curator
News from the South (Toronto, 2019)Pleasure Dome April 27, 2019 Arcadia Housing Co-op, Performance Space, Toronto News from the South NextGen South American artists reinvent the diary form using digital poetries to conjure new fragilities and alliances. The state is also a body, and these … Continue reading
Sounds
I Touched Her Legs remix (7:30 minutes 2019)Eva Marie Rodbro’s embedded ethnographic maestro short, originally made in Brownsville, Texas in 2010, is given a fan remake. Night vision animal life and teen hangouts conjure a temporary and fragile collective, while conversation fragments, alternately performed and raw, shouted … Continue reading
Sounds
Feast (6 minutes 2019)The door opens to admit a windswept idyll. The poet familiar appears in an institution (is it a school? who could ever stop learning?) and then a happening cafe, before the dream starts again, the reverie of language, though we … Continue reading
On Artists
Juliana LoboWaiting for ice cream: an interview with Juliana Lobo (2019) We met at the International Film School in Cuba, Juliana was doing a master’s degree in “alternative cinema,” though astonishingly, she had never made a movie before. The course serves … Continue reading
On Artists
Adriana López GaribayMetamorphosis: an interview with Adriana López Garibay (March 2019) We met at the International Film School in Cuba where Adriana was doing a master’s degree in “alternative cinema” (believe it or not). Whenever I showed the upsetting movies I love … Continue reading
Retrospectives
Fabulous Festival of Fringe Films (June 2019)Remixology written by Jorge Lozano (curator of this program) for Fabulous Festival of Fringe Films, June 2019 Let’s say there is no beginning. No way to start to look at this artist’s work. Or worse: there is never only one … Continue reading
