Mike Hoolboom★★

movies, writing, dharma

Collective: an interview with Yuki Aditya (October 2025) Yuki: Indonesians pushed out two presidents with social movements, the first in 1966, the second in 1998. But the revolutions were never finished. There was no collective ready to occupy the government. … Continue reading →

On Artists

Jorge Lozano introduction screening of Fields of Presence, a feature doc about his daughter Breanna Lozano Innis College, Toronto, November 2, 2024 I’d like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the stolen territories of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, Huron Wendat, … Continue reading →

Curator

converSalón with Keith Lock Saturday January 13 6pm 2023 680 Queen’s Quay West, Toronto Relics of Love and War (40 minutes 2023) Keith Lock, the first Chinese-Canadian filmmaker, returns with a new movie, Relics of Love and War (40 minutes), … Continue reading →

On Artists

It was Holy: an interview with Nicholas Kovats (May 2017) Mike: How did you get interested in movies? Nick: I think the substantial virus was embedded as a 12-year old. My father packed the kids in a 70s-era station wagon … Continue reading →

On Artists

Two Worlds: an interview with Mark Cira (2023) Mike: Armie (2018) is a short one-person psychodrama, featuring a young woman lost in a dream of her haunted past. Her surroundings, whether it’s the abandoned cars in the desert, or surging … Continue reading →

Promises (9:25 minutes 2024)

A wordless film made of photographs taken from around the world. These briefly glimpsed serial portraits, arranged in sequences of patterned gestures, offer a flow of undreamt pleasures and ruins. “It starts by showing people without faces, and then we … Continue reading →

Interviews

1. Hi Mike. How are you? Please tell our readers a little bit about yourself and your work. I’m burned out, depressed, living on screens. It took me many years to learn how to make a movie, or even to … Continue reading →

Books

download the PDF Viva Birgit Hein by Caspar Stracke (Facebook, September 26, 2023) Here is a free, downloadable .pdf for those of you interested to read about one of the most exciting key figures in feminist, structural, hard-core experimental European … Continue reading →

Michael Stone

Notes on a talk by Michael Stone at Centre of Gravity, September 2010 Meeting This summer (August 9-14, 2010) there was a meeting of “engaged Buddhists” which was quite exciting. 70 of the leading Buddhist teachers in North America came, … Continue reading →

Essays

Innis Town Hall, June 23, 2023 Introduction to screening of Waves (64 minutes 2022) I’d like to thank the Ad Hoc Collective – Stephen and Jim, Madi, Tess and Bart for making tonight possible. It feels both special and unexpected … Continue reading →