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Mike Hoolboom

Mike Hoolboom (Canada) has made over eighty films and videos. His work has appeared in over four hundred festivals, garnering thirty awards. He has been granted the Tom Berner Award for community service and two lifetime achievement awards, the first from the city of Toronto, and the second from the Mediawave Festival in Hungary. He has enjoyed retrospectives of his work at the Images Festival in Toronto, Visions du réel in Nyon, Cinema de Balie in Amsterdam, Vila do Conde Festival, Jihlava Documentary Festival and BAFICI. He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival and as coordinator at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Since 2004 he has been working on “Fringe Online,” a web project which makes available the archives of forty Canadian media artists.

FILMOGRAFIA

Song for a Mixed Choir (1980), White Museum (cm, 1986) Mexico (coregia/codirector Steve Sanguedolce, cm, 1992), Escape in Canada (cm, 1993), Frank’s Cock (cm, 1993), House of Pain (cm, 1995), Letters from Home (cm, 1996), Panic Bodies (doc., 1998), Tom (2002), Imitations of Life (2003), In the Dark (cm, 2003), Public Lighting (2004), Fascination (doc., 2006), School (cm, 2008), Mark (doc., 2009), Lacan Palestine (doc., 2012), Buffalo Death Mask (2014), Scrapbook (2015), Incident Reports (2016).