Mike Hoolboom★★

movies, writing, dharma

Interviews

(25FPS @ Art Kino Rijeka) Marija: The form of your film Freedom from Everything appears to me as a mixture of film essay and documentary. It juxtaposes personal archives to publicly mediated fragments, thus reminding me of Adam Curtis’s work. … Continue reading →

Copyright

In Samuel A. Floyd Jr.’s book The Power of Black Music, the author discusses how blues singers created their songs “by combining fragments and verses from the hundreds or thousands of formulas that were floating around in black communities everywhere.” … Continue reading →

Sounds

  A song of first flowers. A few seconds of classical and nouveau jazz stretches, along with celebratory fizzings, and the sound of coco coir, a medium for growing plants, the root place of renewal.

Interviews

Alena: Freedom from Everything (2022) is a personal essay film about twin pandemics – COVID and AIDS. You frame the reaction shots to these global reactions in an examination of neo-liberalism, even returning us, for a moment, to the origins … Continue reading →

Listening (24:30 minutes, 2021)

Listening (24:30 minutes, 2021)

Listening script 00:58 My name is Hildegard Westerkamp and I’m in Vancouver, in my home. 2:21 I think I started piano… I had a teacher when I was 15 who was probably my best ever teacher. 2:36 By that time … Continue reading →

My Education (5 minutes, 2021)

My Education (5 minutes, 2021)

My Education script Every person with a body is a secret historian. You are 31 years old. Your first marriage has just fallen apart. You have an 18-month-old son and no regular job. You are the author of three small … Continue reading →

Sundays (3:45 minutes, 2022)

Sundays script The images gave us no rest yet failed night after night despite how real they were to describe the world as we really knew it. As it knew us. All of my friends became addicts just like yours. … Continue reading →

Sundays (3:45 minutes, 2022)