Genres: experimental

  • The Island

    A garden between Oakland and Berkley where its inhabitants, marginalized by gentrification, plant fruit trees and flowers to pay homage to their loved ones who died in battles against poverty. This is a space of love and freedom cared by Brian for the last 25 years. The island resists, as a living legacy of the Black Panthers who were the first to organize the neighbourhood.

  • Island Story

    “I know nothing about the filmmaker, but with a short film as odd and strangely poignant as this one, the mystery makes it all the better. The blindingly and like a Martian horizon, the sun plays with the viewer’s stability. A narrator gives the account of a strange tale of a couple on a transformative journey into a world of paradise with no language. Animalistic gesticulations and instinctive expression emanate from the body until both of them grow apart and then into other versions of themselves, never to be the same again. A grainy vintage-like feel permeates the alien world…

  • Framing Factory

    “The American not living every minute of every day in a daily way does not make what he has to say to be soothing he wants what he has to say to be exciting, and to move as everything moves, not to move as emotion is moving but to move as anything that really moves is moving… Think of American life as it is lived, they all move so much because in moving they know for certain they can know it any way but in moving they really know it as certain that they are not daily living.” – Gertrude…

  • TERMINALLY IN LOVE

    TERMINALLY IN LOVE is a first-person journey through a haze of heartbreak, pot smoke, heroic delusions, failed connections, wistful fantasies and cringeworthy dreams.

  • il carro, il carro arrugginito, e il mucchio di spazzatura. (the wagon, the rusty cart, and the junk

    65 shots, a mathematical pattern, and three glorious minutes in exploration of form.

  • Phenomena

    An experimental triptych filmed in Super 8 and 16mm over a four-year period, “Phenomena” continues an evolving preoccupation with landscape and celluloid practices. Three scenes are observed: a snowstorm in downtown Ottawa (where the artist lives), a gentle winter thaw on a bog in Eastern Ontario, and the raging Ottawa river during spring run-off. The simple act of observation is transformed into a post-modern cataloging of events, prompting the viewer to wonder to what extent the natural world and phenomena can exist unmediated in filmed representation. ———- Triptyque expérimental tourné en super-8 et en 16 mm sur une période de…

  • trash heaven

    Maisie (14) and Kohe (6) talk about the work of their dad, Chad Baba, an artist, junk repurposer, local Edmonton treasure and awesome dad.

  • what she would not leave behind.

    Among the very few essential objects brought south from her home, Kumaa’naaq’s ulus manifest an autotopographical dream in her great-granddaughter. One of five components of a larger project entitled Bloodline.

  • where no one knew her name.

    Remnants of a life left behind. One of five components of a larger project, Bloodline.

  • Frank’s Cock

    “This is one of the most assured films I have ever seen. In the simplest of frames, in monologue, Vancouver actor Callum Rennie plays a man remembering his lover lost to AIDS. Hoolboom fills his words with blood and the space behind Rennie with blood-rich images. Eight minutes of pure, perfect cinema.” – Cameron Bailey, NOW “The overwhelming losses brought about by the AIDS crisis have, in recent years, stimulated a body of artwork of extraordinary passion and urgency. In ‘Frank’s Cock,’ Mike Hoolboom, one of Canada’s most prolific experimental filmmakers, uses multiple screens as a backdrop to a man,…