Capitalism and its Discontents: An Interview with MIke Hoolboom
Bibliographic record
Abstract
I sat with Mike Hoolboom at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in January 2020, after the premiere of Judy versus Capitalism (2020), an hour-long political bio of radical Canadian activist Judy Rebick. I had already seen the film online but was interested in the crowd reaction to the film given it was not a typical political documentary. I was also familiar, since the early ‘90s, with Hoolboom’s long history of engagement and prolific production with artist film culture.\n<br>\n<br>Last year at IFFR, Hoolboom screened 27 Thoughts About my Father (2019), which features his own articulate ruminations on his father’s memory, who passed away in 2017. In Judy versus Capitalism, Judy Rebick’s stirring and personal voice drives the narrative and Hoolboom’s skills in shaping rhythm and organising his images to process emotion, developed over decades of film production, amplifies Judy’s story.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".