Critical Writing Index

Hoolboom ranks with Snow, Weiland, Cronenberg: Indie ace's new Panic Bodies screens at AGO this weekend

by Peter Goddard

The Toronto Star, Oct. 9, 1998

Peter Goddard reviews Hoolboom's film, Panic Bodies, as screened at Jackman Hall and co-presented by the Art Gallery of Ontario and Pleasure Dome. The review praises Hoolboom's manic vision in Panic Bodies and postulates the enormous influence that Hoolboom has exacted as a filmmaker, arts-organizer, and theorist on alternative film-making.

ITEM 1998.090 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Panic Bodies – Mike Hoolboom

Plague Years – Mike Hoolboom

Frank's Cock – Mike Hoolboom

Letters From Home – Mike Hoolboom

Water Sark – Michael Snow

Dead Ringers – Joyce Weiland

David Cronenberg