You Only Live Twice

Mike Hoolboom: Mike Hoolboom is an author and filmmaker based in Toronto. He has written four books, received more than thirty international prizes, and enjoyed nine international retrospectives of his work.Chase Joynt: Chase Joynt is a Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer who has exhibited his work internationally. He recently received a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago.

• 0.0 Orly0.1 First Date0.2 Ease0.3 Packaging0.4 First Kiss0.5 No Man’s Land0.6 Father0.7 Akin0.8 Fear0.9 Love Letters0.10 Pusher1.0 Festival1.1 Second Life1.2 Looking1.3 Inside Out1.4 Beards1.5 Serena1.6 Relational Autopsy1.7 Screens1.8 Passing On1.9 Archive2.0 Café of Silence2.1 Funeral2.2 Mark2.3 How Could You Ever Leave Me?2.4 Imperfect2.5 Tears2.6 How to Make a Couple2.7 Pride2.8 Secrets2.9 Leaving Home 2.10 Forced Out2.11 Duty and Profit2.12 Dirty Penny Drop 2.13 Tied Up2.14 Love2.15 Curtain Call2.16 Postscript

"Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom here give each other the gift so many people only dream of: ample, unhurried space to unspool crucial stories of one’s life, and an attentive, impassioned, invested, intelligent receiver on the other side. The gift to the reader is both the example of their exchange, and the nuanced, idiosyncratic, finely rendered examination it offers of biopolitical experiences which, in many ways, define our times. I’m so glad they have each other, and that we have this."– Maggie Nelson"Meeting at an impromptu gathering at Orly Airport on the day of Chris Marker's death, Chase Joynt and Mike Hoolboom embark on an extended correspondence inspired by their affinity with the filmmaker. Over time, the two correspondents will investigate the thrill of discovered affinities, most especially their own. You Only Live Twice is an intelligent ode to enchantment, to the possibilities that arise in 'second lives' when all past expectations have been foreclosed."– Chris Kraus"What a wondrous, shimmering, piquant concoction of tales and tails and herds and heads. By tails, I mean all the wagging bits of bodies that Joynt and Hoolboom so courageously put on the line. By herds, I mean all the communities with whom they so gracefully graze. By tales, I mean the way they trouble memories. Stories are never simply recounted, but instead, offered as queries and question marks and interrobangs for all of us to worry over like bones. Most of all, such heads! The writing is out of the park -- strong and surprising, a relay race of brilliant twirling, tossing thoughts back and forth like balletic rugby bros. Joynt and Hoolboom’s dances of disclosure are so courageous and generative, gifts to us all."– John Greyson