Is there still life in the completely antiseptic, homogenous society? What do governments gain by trivializing and concealing HIV/AIDS? Probingly, Beauvais confronts the viewer with the divergent agreements, facts and opinions about aids and the way in which state and society deal with it. Textual material - hard data, prejudices, misunderstandings and policy rules - are fragmented and fired off in short flashes in various languages. The speed with which the texts alternate with each other makes them almost subliminal messages. The changing patterns compel you to take a continually different point of view. As counterpoint for the textual images, Beauvais uses personal stories, interpreted by individual voices on the sound track. In a fragment from Blue, Derek Jarman tells of his panic when he read about the side effects of his new medicines. David Wojnarowicz's tale of the suffering of his friend is also penetrating. Ultimately, Beauvais attempts to offer some prospect on an alternative to a society which propagates death and disappearance as a way of life.
– Geert-Jan Strengholt
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Text Yann Beauvais, David Wojnarovitcz, Derek Jarman, Sound Martine Rousset, translation Dean Inkster
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