Visual Aids Movies
- 2021
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...
- 2019
Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution
Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution02019HD
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...
- 2014
Evidence
Evidence02014HD
In evidence, Julie Tolentino’s naked, moving body articulates backward on her hands and knees, balancing a cluster of Asian medicine cups. The piece,...
- 2020
This is Right: Zak, Life and After
This is Right: Zak, Life and After02020HD
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...
- 2016
Compulsive Practice
Compulsive Practice02016HD
For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine art...
- 2021
In the Future
In the Future02021HD
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...
- 2018
Visual AIDS
Visual AIDS02018HD
Working with artists, curators, and art institutions on a national and international scale, Visual AIDS has never stopped commissioning and distributi...
- 2020
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...
- 2019
The Lie
The Lie02019HD
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...
- 2020
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Health02020HD
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...
- 2021
#Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
#Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex02021HD
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...
- 2021
The Mersey Model
The Mersey Model02021HD
Danny Kilbride interviews Professor John Ashton, a public health official who helped institute the Mersey Model of Harm Reduction in Liverpool in 1986...
- 2021
Voices at the Gate
Voices at the Gate02021HD
Voices at the Gate juxtaposes the bucolic landscapes inhabited by women’s prisons with archival and contemporary audio recordings of poems, essays, an...
- 2020
Female Disappearance Syndrome
Female Disappearance Syndrome02020HD
Lucía Egaña Rojas challenges gendered representations of HIV and AIDS, investigating what Lina Meruane has termed “female disappearance syndrome”—the...
- 2020
Las Indetectables
Las Indetectables02020HD
Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the stigmatization...
- 2021
Nobleza(s) de Sangre
Nobleza(s) de Sangre02021HD
Two fragmented interviews with artists living with HIV in Puerto Rico mediate an audiovisual invocation of the late Boricua poet Manuel Ramos Otero wh...
- 2021
I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor
I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor02021HD
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...
- 2019
(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...
- 2019
Much handled things are always soft
Much handled things are always soft02019HD
Much handled things are always soft unearths the unwritten and undocumented histories of public sex culture in the south-side of Chicago. Through conv...
- 2018
Sero Project
Sero Project02018HD
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...