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RIDM, Nov. 19-29

Mike Hoolboom

August 27, 2024
Reviews

The Cavalry Review: On Horses, Totems, and the Cost of Power

Alina Orlov's The Cavalry offers an experimental portrait of Israeli apartheid seen through the eyes of a police horse trained to obey.

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Interviews/TIFF

An Interview with Parastoo Anoushahpour on Sexuality, Identity, and Language

An interview with Parastoo Anoushahpour on her experimental short film The Time That Separates Us, inspired by the Sodom and Gomorrah tale of Lot.

The Right Questions

After the endless hand-twisting debates around race in Canada’s artist movie portals

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“He didn’t live a double life. He lived twice.” - An appreciation

The Cavalry Review: On Horses, Totems, and the Cost of Power

by Mike Hoolboom
August 27, 2024
Reviews

Alina Orlov's The Cavalry offers an experimental portrait of Israeli apartheid seen through the eyes of a police horse trained to obey.

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An Interview with Parastoo Anoushahpour on Sexuality, Identity, and Language

by Mike Hoolboom
September 14, 2022
Interviews/TIFF

An interview with Parastoo Anoushahpour on her experimental short film The Time That Separates Us, inspired by the Sodom and Gomorrah tale of Lot.

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The Right Questions

by Mike Hoolboom
May 29, 2018
Essays/Features

After the endless hand-twisting debates around race in Canada’s artist movie portals – in production co-ops, in distribution joints, in cinematheques and fests – why are they still so very white? This

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Orly

by Mike Hoolboom Chase Joynt
July 13, 2016
Essays

“He didn’t live a double life. He lived twice.” - An appreciation of Chris Marker's influential classic La jetée

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Book Review: ‘John Porter’s CineScenes’

by Mike Hoolboom
January 15, 2016
Photography/Reviews

There have been rumours about a John Porter photo book for nearly as long as he has been making pictures. Kudos to editor/producer Clint Enns for making this project happen.

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Experimental: Daniel Cockburn-Preliminary Notes

by Mike Hoolboom
November 1, 2005
Features

He tells me his dreams, sometimes, when I run into him, which is more often than not these days. It seems we are intersecting, like it or not, ready or not, but

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My Own Private Doc-files

by Mike Hoolboom
February 2, 2005
Features

Jorgen Leth: Translucent Being The Five Obstructions, a movie made with (and despite) Lars Von Trier, has pushed Jorgen Leth further into visibility on the global stage but there are long lines

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