Mondays at Doc Films
Film and AIDS: Early Queer Responses to the AIDS Epidemic
Programmed by Daniel Schultz and Alex Wolfson
Drawing from a range of directors, this series surveys a diversity of aesthetic reactions to the AIDS epidemic, from queer revolt to Hollywood recuperation. The films negotiate the somatic and psychic pressures of the illness by contesting the moral, racial, sexual, and gendered discourses that surround its experience, presenting film as a site of both political intervention and stylistic experimentation. Films include Gregg Araki's The Living End, Derek Jarman's Blue, and Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia.
This series was supported by The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.
2/20/2017 @ 7:00 PM
Panic Bodies
(Mike Hoolboom, 1998) · An experimental video diary, Panic Bodies is a six-part cinematic meditation on living, and dying with the AIDS virus. The film is a poetic and beautiful exploration in various formats and narratives of the experience of living with AIDS, of being determined by your identification with the virus, of living under the ticking clock of one's own imminent demise. A poem of a film, it keeps you enthralled throughout with its bold originality and cinematic beauty.
runtime: 70m format: 16mm
Date: February 20, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
See:http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/calendar/2017/winter/mondays.shtml
Date: February 20, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
See:http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/calendar/2017/winter/mondays.shtml