Mike Hoolboom★★

movies, writing, dharma

On Artists

I thought she would never die. She was already ageless when I met her, in the early 90s. She could speak without pausing to take a breath. Always on the hustle, trying to get her Filmnotes into the hands of … Continue reading →

Essays

Brakhage Symposium, Boulder, March 1, 2025 The biggest change in culture in my lifetime is the centrality of the archive. What is an archive? A collection. A collection of stones, of letters, of sneakers. The archive used to be a … Continue reading →

Essays

OCADU, February 2025 Have I ever? Have I ever? Have I ever stepped into a room filled with strangers and not felt fear? I feel fear now. What shall we do with our fear? Should we turn it into an … Continue reading →

Essays

for Dok.revue, March 2025 What do you consider the most distinctive aspect of camera work—and the cinematographer’s approach—in documentary filmmaking? To make an image means working in stereo, there is an exchange between what is front of the camera and … Continue reading →

Curator

Visions Carte Blanche, Montreal, 2025 A trio of portraits that come from the cinema, each made possible by collective contexts, from Cuba and Indonesia. Each an adventure of sight and sound. These stunning miniatures are flag bearers for a global … Continue reading →

Curator

Saturday March 17, 2025 6pm doors open, 7pm free home-cooked vegetarian dinner, 8pm concert 680 Queen’s Quay West apt. 404 Concert Please join us for a night of rare electronics by Ahnnah who will perform with tape loops and synths. … Continue reading →

Zen Basketball (4:50 minutes 2020)

He had been a star in the minor leagues, in the off-off-off Broadway world of semi-professional basketball. You’ve probably never heard of him, and little wonder, he was never a maestro of the slam dunk, his pick and rolls never … Continue reading →

Guest Speakers

from Conjunctions and Disjunctions by Octavio Paz (excerpt) 1969 Buddhism is born in non-priestly and aristocratic surroundings: Guatama belonged to the royal clan of the sakya and hence was a member of a warrior caste; his preaching from the start … Continue reading →

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 →