Genres: experimental

  • Drive: automatic/standard

    A film about cars, monster trucks, and the North American driving landscape.

  • Sight Under Construction

    This project is envisioned as an experimental film that will seek to challenge the modern-day purveyors of culture: Hollywood and Madison Ave. The philosophical urging of this piece will be that man’s over-reaching tendencies are based on human ego, and are out of balance with the natural world. The workings of a man’s ego can bring about greatness in art and architecture, science and medicine, but can also bring about catastrophe. Willed obliviousness to impending disaster is a human flaw readily exploited by corporate culture and media. This film will challenge the 1990’s credo: “Don’t think about it, just do…

  • *Corpus Callosum

    The “Corpus Callosum” is a central region of tissue in the human brain which passes messages between the two hemispheres. “Corpus Callosum” the film (or tape, or projected light work) is constructed of, depicts, creates, examines, presents, consists of, and is betweens. Between beginning and ending, between natural and artificial, between fiction and fact, between hearing and seeing, between 1956 and 2002. It’s a tragi-comedy of the cinematic variables. “Corpus Callosum” juxtaposes or counterpoints a realism of normal metamorphosis (two extreme examples: pregnancy, explosions) in believable, real interior spaces with impossible shape changes (some made possible with digital animation). First…

  • Tom

    “A dazzling experimental documentary about notorious cineaste Tom Chomont. Tom narrates his recollections and transgressions against a dizzying array of found footage, video, super-8 and photographs. At moments, he appears in front of the camera, alternately flamboyant or fragile. His revelations cover a broad scope from sadomasochistic desire through existential vulnerability to an incestuous relationship. With this extraordinary portrait, Hoolboom creates a different kind of biography film, one that eschews traditional mimetic realism in order to depict the reminiscences of a fading life lived in the throes of image culture.” – Diane Burgess, Vancouver International Film Festival “An uncommon biography…

  • Maya’s Dream

    A woman recalls a dream about a friend and a bird. As she relives this memory, a sylph-like fair-faced child flies around a skating rink. A love-poem about the confines of domesticity, place and freedom, and the ephemeral nature of childhood.

  • Late Night Visitor

    “Late Night Visitor” is a tribute to the physique films of Bob Mizer and AMG Studios. As wrestlers, body builders and posers, it is an unforgettable part of our heritage.

  • Coyote beautiful

    The most beautiful & dangerous woman in European cinema in a dance performance of epic proportions.

  • Sssssssss

    Sssssssssssssomething’s after me!!!! An homage to the one-man sideshow: written, shot, acted, and edited all by one person. Revenge! Revenge!

  • Max

    A household depiction of my cat Max sitting, guardian of me, filmed in camera. (SB)

  • Ascension

    “Ascension” begins by superimposing paintings that look like clouds over extremely close views of mottled paint, peculiarly intimate in their three-dimensionality. Juxtaposing images of transcendence with representations of what he liked to call the “mess” of life, Brakhage distances himself from both.