Toronto-born Mike Hoolboom is a prolific multidisciplinary artist who has been working since the early 1980s. He began filming his first images as a child, borrowing his parents' Super 8 camera. In the early 90s, Hoolboom was diagnosed with HIV; this news gave him a certain urgency to create that has led him to produce over 100 films to date.

Hoolboom made is name in 1993 with his film Frank's Cock, which won Best Canadian Short at the Toronto International Film Festival. Frank's Cock is a portrait of an anonymous man - played by Callum Keith Rennie - who recounts the loss of his HIV-positive boyfriend.

Hoolboom is a committed filmmaker who uses the power of experimental cinema to make his case, whether against capitalism, the shifting importance of artificial intelligence or injustice against the queer communities.

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