"Hoolboom plunders all of cinema for this epic meta-science fiction in which the future and the present are conceived as an endless parade of images. Science fiction as a realm of displaced fears and dreams, a place to imagine a future that's already here." Chris Gehman

"Imitations of Life is an insightful and rather beautiful rumination on the terrifying notion that we, as a society, have forgotten how to imagine the future. Hoolboom suggests that the banal futures of such contemporary sci-fi flicks as The Matrix are, in fact, our own present. But distracted by the images churned out by the Hollywood machine, we don't notice. We recycle history, call it style, sit and stagnate. Hoolboom's film drives the horror home with a force seen not nearly often enough." Nick Davies, Xtra!

"Imitations of Life surveys disaster imagery from Hollywood movies while titles articulate our desire to destroy everything. Director Mike Hoolboom includes both the microscopic (cells) and the macroscopic (galaxies), the disparity between them generating a sense of free-floating displacement.” Fred Camper, Chicago Reader