Event

MIX NYC 30th - Sunday Night Showcase - Here and Now

Here and Now:
Meditations on the Contemporary State of HIV/AIDS
Curated by: Jim Hubbard

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, thousands of AIDS Activist Videos were made by scores of grassroots videomakers, but with the diminution of direct political AIDS activism and the advent of protease inhibitors, the production of video decreased as well.
The political, social and medical conditions around HIV/AIDS have changed dramatically, and desperately need a new generation of moving image makers to explore the ramifications of these changes.
Here are eight examples of recent explorations of HIV/AIDS, in hopes that this will inspire many more videos.
Jim Hubbard, curator

Films:
Here and Now
PrEP in the Ballroom Scene
Red Red Red
Going Vital 101
SOL
The Positive YouTubers
DiAna's Hair Ego REMIX
Stones and Water Weight

Red Red Red
David Oscar Harvey
2011, USA, video, color, sound, 24 min., Not a premiere

Going Viral 101
Vasilios Papapitsios
2017, USA, video, color, sound, 8 min., Not a premiere

SOL
Xena Ellison & Elizabeth Mputu
2016, USA, video, color & B/W, 10 min., Not a premiere

The Positive YouTubers
Leandro Goddinho
Year, Country, video, color, sound, 15 min. Not a premiere