A young lad delves into the local folk tale of a murderous monk for an upcoming exhibition. While out taking stills for the project, he disappears leaving it up to his brother to find out exactly what happened at Lidwell Chapel.
During the Christmas holidays, Amir and Amira, both ten years old, end up in a shelter with their mother. On New Year's Eve, they are determined that the performance they've been planning for weeks, can still go ahead.
With a satirical and darkly humorous bent, and an accompanying musical number, LUCID NIGHTMARE depicts the isolated world of a character navigating personal and political upheaval. Combining auto-fiction with magical realism, Papapitsios reimagines narratives around mental health and chronic illness. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Taking its title from a sensational telenovela episode, El Club del SIDA cycles through a lifetime of heavily stigmatizing images about HIV and AIDS. Delgado plays with multiple aesthetics—documentary, horror, comedy—to explore the various relationships he has had with AIDS over the course of his life. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Through home videos, archival footage and textile landscapes, it’s giving explores various forms of family across time. The artist's domestic life is paired with archival video of queer and trans chosen families mirroring small acts of joy, resistance, and sustenance. What does it mean for an HIV+ person, who carries the history and present of the AIDS-crisis in their DNA, to foster new life? Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Through a collage of poetry and archival images, Realms Remix traces memories and sensations of an AIDS past that continue to haunt the present. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
In Dear Kwong Chi, Cruz creates a video letter to the late artist Tseng Kwong Chi, drawing from the experience of living with HIV in diaspora. Across continents and decades, Kwong Chi’s legacy acts as an anchor for Cruz amongst limited representations of Asian narratives in AIDS histories. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
El VIH se enamoró de mi (HIV Fell in Love With Me) tells the story of a woman with HIV embracing her sexuality and reconnecting with her pleasure. Filmed with an erotic aesthetic, the video reflects a pursuit towards sexual justice and autonomy for women living with HIV. Commissioned in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck tackles the disorienting experience of existing with a manageable condition that our present culture insists on representing in terms of its bleak past. Interested in figuring HIV differently, the film presents a series of visual puns merging the iconography of HIV and AIDS with popular symbols of luck. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2024 as part of Red Reminds Me..., a program of seven videos reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today.
Lynn, a young librarian in a dystopian world, has a life that is dictated by the nation’s ideology. After the disappearance of her close friend, she encounters Jade, a roguish young man who will change her dreams forever.
Drained by his everyday teaching job. Mr French is desperate to free himself from the shackles of his students. When the letter containing the key finally arrives on his desk, his day is transformed.
Tomas, the only boy amidst three sisters growing up, longed for a son as his first child with his wife Elena. After a troubling miscarriage, the couple mourns a very early loss in the family.
In 1943 Poland, Regina, a Jewish woman, has lost her entire family and is rescued by a young childless couple, Jan and Barbara and given shelter in their closet. Over time, Regina grows close with the couple, and Barbara and she are forced to make sacrifices to stay alive. Many years later, Helusia, a descendant of Regina's, embarks on a quest and makes a discovery that upends the lives of all involved.
An Undercover cop, Riley, goes out on a night to deal with an enigmatic, troubled, and complex dealer, Landon, who is struggling with the weight of his job.