Visual Aids Movies

  • 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)
  • 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
  • 2016
    Compulsive Practice

    Compulsive Practice

    Compulsive Practice

    02016HD

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

    Compulsive Practice
  • 2020
    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After

    02020HD

    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 2...

    This is Right: Zak, Life and After
  • 2014
    Evidence

    Evidence

    Evidence

    02014HD

    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
  • 2020
    Ministry of Health

    Ministry of Health

    Ministry of Health

    02020HD

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

    Ministry of Health
  • 2019
    Much handled things are always soft

    Much handled things are always soft

    Much handled things are always soft

    02019HD

    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
  • 2018
    Sero Project

    Sero Project

    Sero Project

    02018HD

    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
    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor

    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor

    I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor

    02021HD

    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
    #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
  • 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 wide...

    In the Future
  • 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 disappearance syndrome”—the...

    Female Disappearance Syndrome
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 a...

    I'm Still Me
  • 2020
    Las Indetectables

    Las Indetectables

    Las Indetectables

    02020HD

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

    Las Indetectables
  • 2019
    (eye, virus)

    (eye, virus)

    (eye, virus)

    02019HD

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

    (eye, virus)
  • 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
  • 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 campaigns an...

    They Called it Love, But Was it Love?