GRAMSCI’S NOTEBOOKS

by MIKE HOOLBOOM

Written by Mike Hoolboom / Editing Mike Hoolboom / Produced by Mike Hoolboom

Canada 2021 / 15’
V.O. sub. ITA

out of competition

19.11.2021

10:30

Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Efebo Specials

RESERVED FOR CSC STUDENTS

During his trip to Italy,
in 2019, when he was at the Efebo d’Oro as a guest, Mike Holboom shot footage that he has used to build his insightful reflections on the sense of travelling and visiting new places that he pieced together with the mastery and thoughtfulness that have always characterised him. Recalling also that Antonio Gramsci was a jogger…

DIRECTOR

Mike Hoolboom

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Born in Toronto in 1959, Mike Hoolboomhe is a prolific and versatile experimental filmmaker, emerged during the mid-1980. In parallel with his cinematographic production, he is also a critic and a curator and he is considered one of the greatest Canadian experimental filmmakers along with Michael Snow.
Fascinated with dismantling the mechanics of meanings,
he shot much of his early work using his father’s Super 8 camera. His works investigates how physicality determines perception and also how an image-saturated mass culture determines problems of perception.