Mike Hoolboom dreams big

In advance of the book launch for Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists (on May 13), editor Mike Hoolboom talked to Pages Books and Magazines. For their new website, he wrote a tribute to one of the many movie-makers he's worked with over the years.<!--newline--><!--newline--><!--newline-->His feet never seemed to quite hit the ground when he entered the room, blown in on some passing whim. He would greet me with a wave that came from the end of his scarf, and a 'hiiii' that drawled the vowel so long we could both land on it. His name, which I glibly mispronounced for years without his ever once correcting it, was Mark Karbusicky. Mark was an editor and through six winters we sat together in the dark, sieving pictures through a computer, his large capable hands interfacing with the machine. I wasn’t able to see then the way his lightness was also a way of erasing every step, as if he were walking backwards through the snow with a broom, leaving no traces. Now you see me, now you don't ...<!--newline--><!--newline-->Read more at www.pagesbooks.ca.