A conversation with Canadian artist Stephen Andrews returns us to a pre-cocktail moment, when being HIV+ afforded us the consolation of certainty.
“For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV.
A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no
surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic —
on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time
survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality
inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question "Why are we still here when
so many are gone?" Tom Waugh
1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
Digital file on USB stick |
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screen |
16/9 (single screen) |
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speed |
23,976 fps |
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sound |
sound |
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rental fee |
76,00 € |
