Visual Aids Movies

  • 2016
    Compulsive Practice

    Compulsive Practice

    Compulsive Practice

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    For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS commissioned COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by...

    Compulsive Practice
  • 2021
    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor

    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor

    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor

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    Through a chorus of voices, Steed Taylor explores the difficulties of being a long-term AIDS survivor and the unexpected health problems facing many...

    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor
  • 2021
    In the Future

    In the Future

    In the Future

    02021HD

    In the Future tells the stories of people living with HIV in Mexico who have been unable to access treatment because of government corruption and...

    In the Future
  • 2019
    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

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    Viva Ruiz invites transgender AIDS activist, artist, and beloved friend Chloe Dzubilo (1960–2011) to speak via never before seen Hi-8 footage...

    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution
  • 2014
    Evidence

    Evidence

    Evidence

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    In evidence, Julie Tolentino’s naked, moving body articulates backward on her hands and knees, balancing a cluster of Asian medicine cups. The...

    Evidence
  • 2019
    Much handled things are always soft

    Much handled things are always soft

    Much handled things are always soft

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    Much handled things are always soft unearths the unwritten and undocumented histories of public sex culture in the south-side of Chicago. Through...

    Much handled things are always soft
  • 2020
    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

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    This is Right: Zak, Life and After is a portrait of Zak Kostopoulos, a well-known queer AIDS activist who was publicly lynched to death in Athens in...

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After
  • 2018
    Sero Project

    Sero Project

    Sero Project

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    The Sero Project is a U.S.-based network of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and allies fighting for freedom from stigma and injustice. Sero is...

    Sero Project
  • 2021
    滴水希望 (Hope Drops)

    滴水希望 (Hope Drops)

    滴水希望 (Hope Drops)

    02021HD

    A collaborative video project made with women living in Taiwan who use their cameras to process stress and stigma, and to share their experiences...

    滴水希望 (Hope Drops)
  • 2021
    Voices at the Gate

    Voices at the Gate

    Voices at the Gate

    02021HD

    Voices at the Gate juxtaposes the bucolic landscapes inhabited by women’s prisons with archival and contemporary audio recordings of poems,...

    Voices at the Gate
  • 2019
    I Remember Dancing

    I Remember Dancing

    I Remember Dancing

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    I Remember Dancing brings together an intergenerational cast of "trans and queer gaysians" ruminating on the past and future of AIDS, activism, gay...

    I Remember Dancing
  • 2020
    Ministry of Health

    Ministry of Health

    Ministry of Health

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    Ministry of Health employs the aesthetics of horror movies and silent film to evoke the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on four men living with...

    Ministry of Health
  • 2021
    #Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

    #Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

    #Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

    02021HD

    A chronicle of Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad’s 2017 medication strike against the Mazzoni Center, a LGBT health clinic in Philadelphia, and the direct...

    #Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
  • 2021
    The Mersey Model

    The Mersey Model

    The Mersey Model

    02021HD

    Danny Kilbride interviews Professor John Ashton, a public health official who helped institute the Mersey Model of Harm Reduction in Liverpool in...

    The Mersey Model
  • 2021
    Nobleza(s) de Sangre

    Nobleza(s) de Sangre

    Nobleza(s) de Sangre

    02021HD

    Two fragmented interviews with artists living with HIV in Puerto Rico mediate an audiovisual invocation of the late Boricua poet Manuel Ramos Otero...

    Nobleza(s) de Sangre
  • 2020
    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?

    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?

    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?

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    They Called it Love, But Was it Love? depicts scenes from the lives of kothis living in India. Reduced to a “risk group” by public health...

    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?
  • 2019
    (eye, virus)

    (eye, virus)

    (eye, virus)

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    Through an experimental collage of video and pictographs, (eye, virus) explores how conversations around disclosure, stigma, and harm reduction shift...

    (eye, virus)
  • 2018
    Positive Women's Network - USA

    Positive Women's Network - USA

    Positive Women's Network - USA

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    Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is a national membership body of women living with HIV and allies that exists to strengthen the...

    Positive Women's Network - USA
  • 2020
    Finding Purpose

    Finding Purpose

    Finding Purpose

    02020HD

    Finding Purpose reflects on the experience of producing a film about the lives of teens born with HIV in Uganda and the pervasive stigma that...

    Finding Purpose
  • 2020
    Female Disappearance Syndrome

    Female Disappearance Syndrome

    Female Disappearance Syndrome

    02020HD

    Lucía Egaña Rojas challenges gendered representations of HIV and AIDS, investigating what Lina Meruane has termed “female...

    Female Disappearance Syndrome