White Museum (1986)

The cinematic equivalent of flipping the bird White Museum is an audacious and often hilarious early effort by master provocateur Mike Hoolboom Viewers must wait about 30 minutes to see the one and only image in the film In the meantime Hoolboom expounds on everything from old lovers to making movies to living in the big city With unabashed irony he argues for a cinema without images while simultaneously describing the images he would show if he had the cash For a film that appears on the surface to be literally about nothing White Museum becomes a veritable cornucopia of semiotic jokes and meanings as well as a rich statement on the nature of cinema itself Jason McBride Canadian Film Encyclopedia