Feb 27, 7:00 PM: Film and AIDS: Fast Trip, Long Drop

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. 2/27/2017 @ 7:00 PM Fast Trip, Long Drop (Gregg Bordowitz, 1994) · A recently diagnosed Bordowitz is forced to stare down his own mortality. The film, loosely plotted around his memory of infection and anger at having been handed a death sentence, weaves scenes of intense personal vulnerability and political antagonism. Beautifully cut, this documentary combines a melancholic attachment to life with a fear and desire for death. The film plays alongside Bordowitz's "some aspects of a shared lifestyle." Co-sponsored by Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, vdb.org runtime: 76m format: Digital

Date: February 27, 2017
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

See:http://docfilms.uchicago.edu/dev/calendar/2017/winter/mondays.shtml