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
  • 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)
  • 2020
    I take care of myself/I’m careful

    I take care of myself/I’m careful

    I take care of myself/I’m careful

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    Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the...

    I take care of myself/I’m careful
  • 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)
  • 2020
    Female Disappearance Syndrome

    Female Disappearance Syndrome

    Female Disappearance Syndrome

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

    Female Disappearance Syndrome
  • 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
  • 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
    I Remember Dancing

    I Remember Dancing

    I Remember Dancing

    02019HD

    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
  • 2018
    VOCAL-NY

    VOCAL-NY

    VOCAL-NY

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    VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) is a New York-based grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people...

    VOCAL-NY
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    The SPOT

    The SPOT

    The SPOT

    02018HD

    The SPOT (Safe Place Over Time) is dedicated to providing services and opportunities for wellness, empowerment, and leadership to young men in...

    The SPOT
  • 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
  • 2018
    Visual AIDS

    Visual AIDS

    Visual AIDS

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    Working with artists, curators, and art institutions on a national and international scale, Visual AIDS has never stopped commissioning and...

    Visual AIDS
  • 2020
    Finding Purpose

    Finding Purpose

    Finding Purpose

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    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
    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?

    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?

    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?

    02020HD

    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?
  • 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
  • 2014
    7 Years Later

    7 Years Later

    7 Years Later

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    For 7 Years Later, Glen Fogel visited his ex-boyfriend Nathan Lee in Providence, RI and videotaped a conversation between the two of them. They...

    7 Years Later
  • 2019
    I'm Still Me

    I'm Still Me

    I'm Still Me

    02019HD

    I'm Still Me explores how digital platforms have created community and connections for Sian, a Black woman living with HIV and navigating the stigma...

    I'm Still Me
  • 2019
    The Lie

    The Lie

    The Lie

    02019HD

    The Lie is the latest in an ongoing series of short films by Carl George drawing on found footage and materials from the artist’s archive....

    The Lie