"The festival has always programmed work addressing the issues of HIV and Aids and this year is no exception. It seems to me as if HIV and
Aids is a 'no-go' area, other than in the dedicated media. When was the last time you heard anything on the news? The fact that the culture and climate for People With Aids is changing and evolving all the time with the introduction of combination therapies, among other things, is important. While I was keen to reflect this in the programme in some way, one can't predict what kind of work will be available. Furthermore, we all felt it was important to have a strong and varied festival programme, without a specific 'this is the Aids section'. In my search for work, I came across shorts, features,
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dramas and documentaries. The selection of this new work includes a shorts programme about Aids video activism from Jim Hubbard's 'Fever In the Archive' exhibition, which he guest-curated at The Guggenheim Museum, and a retrospective of David Wojnarowicz's HIV artwork. Wojnarowicz was a member of photographer Nan Goldin's New York circle and the rare screening of these films was researched, unearthed and curated by Ian White."
And the highlights...
Ignorant Fairies
In the first 10 minutes of Ignorant Fairies, a beautiful woman doctor
is seen consoling
her patient who has just been informed of his HIV status. He's a married man and confesses he caught the virus from his lover. At that moment,
