Practical Dreamers

Fringe filmmaker and writer Mike Hoolboom talks to Eye Weekly's Jason Anderson about the utilitarian and magical applications of video art. He also gives some insight into motivations and aspirations behind his novel, The Steve Machine.

“I had always wanted to make useful art,” Hoolboom says, “videotapes that could be strong enough to tow cars, but light enough to serve as the bow on a boy’s birthday present.”

Coach House has three books in the Globe and Mail's top 100 of 2008: Mike Hoolboom's Practical Dreamers, Claudia Dey's Stunt and R. M. Vaughan's Troubled!

Here's what the critics have to say about each title:

Practical Dreamers:

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.