Shorts Collection: HIV/AIDS
Film
- Language talk: English
part of QUEER DAY |
Despite medical advances and social progress, living with HIV/AIDS remains a daily reality for many worldwide. As US funding to UNAIDS is suspended and public attention wanes, life-saving treatment and prevention efforts falter, leaving millions dangerously exposed. Presented as a fundraiser for Aidsfonds, Shorts Collection: HIV/AIDS seeks to defy stigma by foregrounding lived experience, medical injustice and histories of activism. The films will be screened in the following order: Murmurations, and Lloyd Wong, Unfinished.
This programme is a fundraiser for Aidsfonds. Half of the ticket sale will be donated.
TALK
The short films Lloyd Wong, Unfinished and Murmurations give two different experiences of life with and art about HIV/AIDS. Following the films writer and editor Lars Meijer will expand on the cultural memory and influence of HIV/AIDS on literature and the visual arts. Lastly doctor at the Department of General Internal Medicine Lisa van de Wijer will discuss the medical status of and taboos surrounding HIV/AIDS, the effect of the budget cuts and what we can do about it.
This fundraiser event is hosted by writer and podcast maker Jozien Wijkhuijs.
Murmurations
As clouds of starlings ripple across the sky, the filmmaker reflects on his experience living with HIV. Through exchanged voice messages with his lover, archival footage of New York AIDS activism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomblé rituals, Murmurations weaves time and place into an intimate meditation on resistance, memory, and collective healing.- Saulė Savanevičiūtė
- Director
- Xavier Marrades
- Country
- Spain
- Length
- 21 min
- Nominated for
- InShort Competition
- Type Film
- Short
- Premiere
- -
- Language
- Portuguese
- Pathway
- Scientivist, Corpus, The Things We Do For Love
- Subtitle
- English
- Year
- 2025
- Trigger warnings
- Homophobia
Lloyd Wong, Unfinished
When Lesley Loksi Chan uncovers the film Lloyd Wong was unable to finish before succumbing to an AIDS-related illness, she enters a collaboration across time. Centering Wong’s blood transfusion tutorial, Chan crafts a quietly monumental split-screen tribute to the victims of the HIV/AIDS crisis, while exposing governmental hostility toward marginalized communities.- Thomas Streekstra
- Director
- Lesley Loksi Chan
- Country
- Canada
- Length
- 28 min
- Nominated for
- InShort Competition
- Type Film
- Short
- Premiere
- -
- Language
- English
- Pathway
- Scientivist, Corpus
- Subtitle
- English
- Year
- 2025
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