Year: 1986
Language: English
Format: 35mm Black & White
Runtime: 32 min
Director: Mike Hoolboom
Producer: Mike Hoolboom
Writer: Mike Hoolboom
Cinematographer: Mike Hoolboom
Editor: Mike Hoolboom

The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird, White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike Hoolboom. Viewers must wait about thirty minutes to see the one and only image in the film. In the meantime, Hoolboom expounds on everything from old girlfriends to making movies to living in the big city. With unabashed irony, he argues for a cinema without images, while simultaneously describing the images he would show if he had the cash.

For a film that appears on the surface to be literally about nothing, White Museum becomes a veritable cornucopia of semiotic jokes and meanings, as well as a rich statement on the nature of cinema itself.