28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
We Make Couples
director: Mike Hoolboom
original title: We Make Couples
country: Canada
year: 2016
running time: 57 min.
synopsis
A multi-layered reflection intertwining types of domestic skirmishes with the ones we have within society. It relies on a number of central themes, such as the depictions of faces, touches, projection, or exploding light. It formulates arguments about production (relationships), forms of resistance (against restrictions), systems for organizing the way we see things (ourselves and each other), about ways we project (ourselves to others), about personal and industrial relationships, expressions of beauty (and politics) in an age when “intensity is more important than endurance”. Using montage and rhythmically brilliant collage essays, the filmmaker combines found and his own materials.
“The cure for loneliness is solitude.” (Marianne Moore)
biography
Mike Hoolboom (1959) is a leading figure of Canadian experimental filmmaking. He worked for the distribution company CFMDC and as the artistic director of the Images festival. He is the author of a novel and a number of books on experimental cinematography. In his personal and essay films, he works primarily with “stolen footage”. His films appear regularly at the Jihlava IDFF - in 2003 a retrospective of his work was held.more about film
director: | Mike Hoolboom |