Winnipeg Free Press interviews Mike Hoolboom

Randall King from the Winnipeg Free Press interviews fringe filmmaker and author Mike Hoolboom in time for his two events at the Winnipeg Cinematheque.

How to approach movie art 'shunted to the fringes' of conventional cinema? Hoolboom offers a great analogy:

'It's like if you spent your whole life buying chairs from IKEA, from a factory that makes a thousand chairs a week, and then one day you notice there's a sound coming from your neighbour's garage and you walk over and see they're building this unusual thing.

'You don't recognize at first what it might be, but eventually, you see that's also a chair. But it feels and looks so different, because it's coming out of his or her hands and the way they're living their life and it offers different kinds of comforts and different kinds of pleasures.'

Read more at http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/entertainment/movies/fringe_filmmakers_profiled-39900087.html.