Mike Hoolboom
- January 8, 2024
- Filmmaker
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Mike Hoolboom Biography
| Name | Mike Hoolboom |
| Birthday | Jan 1 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place Of Birth | Toronto |
| Home Town | Ontario |
| Birth Country | Canada |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Mike Hoolboom is one of the most popular and richest Filmmaker who was born on January 1, 1959 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Hoolboom was the son of a Dutch father, and a Dutch-Indonesian mom, in Toronto, Ontario. He was born on January 1, 1959. Hoolboom began filmmaking as a hobby at an early age. He used the family’s Super 8 camera and attended high school in Burlington, Ontario.
Hoolboom was awarded Best Canadian Short Film (TIFF) two times in the mid- 1990s. The first time was with Frank’s Cock, 1993. Callum Keith Rennie played the unnamed male lead in this eight-minute film. He was the “Michael Jordan” of sex and lost his lover Frank to AIDS. The monologue was shown on a quadrant of the four-part split screen, which also featured other quadrants, including gay pornography and representations of human creativity. Hoolboom said that Frank’s Cock had never been so big when he accepted the TIFF award. Two additional works were created that year: Valentine’s Day, which was about a man who spent a lot of money on making a movie after being diagnosed by AIDS; Kanada, where Wayne Gretzky is the prime minister and uses broadcast rights to fund a civil war to repay Canada’s debt. Robert Everett Green of The Globe and Mail said that Valentine’s Day reminded him of the Marquis de Sade films and La Grande Bouffe, a 1973 French-Italian movie.
Cameron Bailey, writing in the Canadian fashion magazine Flare, described Hoolboom as “Canada’s most important avant-garde filmmaker since Michael Snow”; Liam Lacey, writing for The Globe and Mail, echoes the description, adding that Hoolboom is also “one of the best chroniclers of other fringe filmmakers”. His works had been shown at over 200 film festivals by 1998.
A four-minute film tribute to Hoolboom by Wrik Mead, entitled Hoolboom, was sponsored by Arts Toronto and debuted in 1999. The following year Hoolboom released Inside the Pleasure Dome: Fringe Film in Canada, a series of 23 interviews with Canadian fringe filmmakers regarding the industry, with a foreword by Atom Egoyan.
Hoolboom was serving a two year stint at the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. He was later diagnosed with HIV after donating blood. He made 27 more films in the six years that followed his diagnosis. His focus shifted to the impermanence of life, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. He has been credited with a “new urgency” during this period. The Independent Eye, a magazine about fringe film, was also published by him.
Mike Hoolboom Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Filmmaker |
| House | Living in own house. |
Mike Hoolboom is one of the richest Filmmaker from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mike Hoolboom 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Michael “Mike” Hoolboom, a Canadian experimental filmmaker and independent filmmaker, was born 1 January 1959. Hoolboom began filmmaking as a child and released his first major film, White Museum in 1986. He continued producing films but his production rate increased dramatically after being diagnosed with HIV in 1988/89. This gave his work a “new urgency”. He has produced dozens of films since then, including two that won Best Short Film at Toronto International Film Festival. He has also had his films featured in over 200 film festivals around the world.
Hoolboom was enrolled at Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario in 1980. He was well-known for his works during his three years at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Geoff Pevere, a Canadian film critic, said that he “demonstrated an obsession with navigating the outer limits, of perception, language, self, mechanical reproduction, bodily sensation, and experience”. White Museum, a 32-minute film that spliced audio clips from pop culture media and provided commentary on the state film over a clear leader, earned him wide praise in 1986. His films, including From Home (1988), and Eat (1989), focused on different aspects of the human body.
Three years later, in 1996, Hoolboom released Letters From Home, based in part on a speech by LGBT rights activist Vito Russo. The 15-minute film features commentary on popular misconceptions of AIDS and ways that the general public deal with AIDS patients before ending on an optimistic note, expressing hope that the AIDS crisis would one day be over. In 1998 he released the feature- length film Panic Bodies, a six-part work dealing with aspects of the body which, according to Hoolboom, is fragmented like AIDS fragments the body. That year he also released Plague Years: A Life in Underground Movies, a book which blends aspects of film scripts and autobiographical writing.
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