Editing
Michael Coolen
Born 1999-08-22 · Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Michael Coolen (aka Crisis Hotline) is a filmmaker, musician and artist from Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada. During the covid-19 pandemic Michael began collaborating on the submission based web show "Sewer City TV" with other like minded artists. In 2021 Michael began work on his first documentary 1000% Japan USA before working on Bald Terror (2022), and his directorial debut VERMIN (2026). He produces music and visual art under the alias Crisis Hotline. In 2024 he released his second album titled "God Burned Down My House," and the EP "Pre-rendered Dream." Michael is a freelance artist and has done work for A2B2, Popular Front and Million Dollar Extreme.
Acting credits
NRMarty is stuck in a cycle of retail mediocrity - and the ever-looming shadow of his older brother's legacy - when the world around him suddenly becomes strange, unsettling and all too accommodating.
Your Brother Harry
2024
10.0A series of disjointed skits and vignettes assembled by a wide variety of online collaborators inspired by the film Gummo.
Gummo 2
2021
NRA paranoid man named Gary is forced into committing burglaries by two white trash brothers Chris and Scott, as the line between manipulation and conspiracy begins to blur.
VERMIN
2026
Behind the camera
10.0A series of disjointed skits and vignettes assembled by a wide variety of online collaborators inspired by the film Gummo.
Gummo 2
2021
NRA paranoid man named Gary is forced into committing burglaries by two white trash brothers Chris and Scott, as the line between manipulation and conspiracy begins to blur.
VERMIN
2026
NRA paranoid man named Gary is forced into committing burglaries by two white trash brothers Chris and Scott, as the line between manipulation and conspiracy begins to blur.
VERMIN
2026
NRA pseudo-documentary follows an unnamed raver obsessed with the extreme sub-genre "gabber," as he drifts through his lonely day by day, far from home and far from his culture.
Bald Terror
2022
NRA pseudo-documentary follows an unnamed raver obsessed with the extreme sub-genre "gabber," as he drifts through his lonely day by day, far from home and far from his culture.
Bald Terror
2022