Visual Aids Movies

  • 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 piece,...

    Evidence
  • 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. Offering “r...

    The Lie
  • 2019
    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution

    02019HD

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

    Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution
  • 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 conv...

    Much handled things are always soft
  • 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 nine...

    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 s...

    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor
  • 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 1986...

    The Mersey Model
  • 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 stigmatization...

    I take care of myself / I’m careful
  • 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 surround...

    Finding Purpose
  • 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 particul...

    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 livi...

    滴水希望 (Hope Drops)
  • 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 action...

    #Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
  • 2018
    The SPOT

    The SPOT

    The SPOT

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

    The SPOT
  • 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 cu...

    I Remember Dancing
  • 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 distributi...

    Visual AIDS
  • 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, essays, an...

    Voices at the Gate
  • 2014
    7 Years Later

    7 Years Later

    7 Years Later

    02014HD

    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 discus...

    7 Years Later
  • 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 wh...

    Nobleza(s) de Sangre
  • 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 strategic power o...

    Positive Women's Network - USA