As the final show of its 26th season of celebrating Canada’s experimental moving image artists, Café Ex is proud to showcase the recent work of internationally acclaimed, Governor General’s Award for Media and Visual Arts winner, Mike Hoolboom. Hoolboom’s astonishingly prolific career as a filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and critic has for decades made him one of Canada’s most important and consistently daring artists.

This special evening will feature a personal video message from Hoolboom, screenings of four recent works, and the launch of a new Canadian Film Institute co-publication on Hoolboom’s work, Mike Hoolboom: Work (Canadian Film Institute, ConverSalon Collective; Ottawa-Toronto 2025), edited by Clint Enns. A former Café Ex guest artist, Enns will attend the screening to discuss the book and host a series of readings by contributors to this remarkable look at Hoolboom’s extraordinary output to date.

Admission is pick-your-price and includes a copy of the book!