Mike Hoolboom★★

movies, writing, dharma

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 →

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 →