Ice Cream

synopsis

The experience of an ice cream factory worker sublimates into a testimony woven from faces, gestures, and reflected connections between capitalism, AIDS, the relationship to the body, and the fragile position of women. Anger does not melt away like ice cream on the tongue in this poetic essay, inspired by the ideas of anthropologists Emily Martin and Karen Ho and sociologist Lisa Adkins.

“The personal is not only political but cultural. What if culture was about taking care of basic needs like food and relationships? Every evening starts with a free home-cooked meal before the artist opens a conversation, as we slouch over couches or sprawl across the floor, close enough to be touched. Let’s remember that we have bodies together. We make a meal of each other’s words and appetites. What could be more intimate than to be eaten?” — Mike Hoolboom, an interview with Salome Kokoladze (2020)

Source: https://mikehoolboom.com/?p=21026

biography

Mike Hoolboom (born 1959) is a Canadian filmmaker, essayist, and writer. He has made more than a hundred films, which he often continues to develop in remixed versions. He presented a retrospective entitled Transparent Being (2003) at Ji.hlava IDFF and returns regularly to the festival – his film Fascination (2006) lent its name to the experimental film competition section, and in 2016 he shot a short film here entitled Ghost. His work deals with intimacy, constructions of subjectivity, media, and the influence of work and working conditions on interpersonal relationships.

film details

director:	Mike Hoolboom
producer:	Mike Hoolboom