2021-22 VI participants
Documentation of the creation processes of these six videos
Unfinished
Lesley Chan
Archival restoration/deconstruction of Lloyd Wong’s “lost” 1991 AIDS tape.
Walking In These Shoes
Christian Hui & Samuel Lopez
A tribute to HIV+ activist and fashionista Derek “Dyee” Yee, who passed in 2021.
Guardian of Sleep
Zachery Longboy
A visual poem about Indigenous pride, batons, caribou, and living with HIV and Parkinson’s.
smokescreengrab
Mikiki
A queer artist comes out as HIV+ to his Mi’kmaq grandma in Newfoundland.
Of What Deaths We Die
Esery Mondesir
A portrait of the artist’s father, who died of AIDS in Haiti in 1980, before the virus had a name.
Becoming Mighty Real
Andrew Zealley
An intergen HIV magnetic couple talk about music, doctors, U=U, and desire.