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God Has AIDS
BROADCAST Screening Series
Date:
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 from 7:00pm–9:00pm
Price: Free
Visual AIDS EventLocation:
The Center208 W 13th St
Room 301
New York, NY , 10011
United States
Visual AIDS presents the US premiere of God Has AIDS as part of BROADCAST, a free summer screening series featuring contemporary artists’ responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis through the medium of video.
God Has AIDS
Directed by Gustavo Vinagre & Fábio Leal
Wednesday, June 8, 7pm at The Center (Room 301)
Please RSVP for this free screening
God Has AIDS (2021, 82 min) follows seven artists and an activist doctor in Brazil—all HIV-positive—who speak out against ignorance, racism in the gay scene, and the total invisibility of women with HIV and AIDS. Through dance, performance, and poetry, they offer new images of HIV and a better understanding of their bodies and their mortality.
The screening will be followed by a conversation with director Gustavo Vinagre.
About the directors
Fábio Leal is a director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote, directed and acted in the short films O Porteiro do Dia (commercially released in 10 countries) and Reforma (Best Actor and Best Screenplay at the Brasília Festival). Last year he released his first feature film, Deus tem AIDS (God Has AIDS) (directed in partnership with Gustavo Vinagre), and he is currently writing his first fiction feature, O Vale dos Homossexuales. His most recent film is Following All the Protocols.
Gustavo Vinagre
is the director of Três tigres tristes (Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter, 2022), Deus tem AIDS (God Has AIDS, 2021), Desaprender a dormir (Unlearning to sleep, 2021), Vil, má (Divinely Evil, 2020), A rosa azul de Novalis (The Blue Flower of Novalis, 2019), and Lembro mais dos corvos (I Remember the Crows, 2018), among many other films. He studied literature at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and screenwriting at Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
BROADCAST features six unique screenings from June 8–July 9 at venues across New York City. Full details are available at visualaids.org/broadcast.
Visual AIDS thanks The Center for generously hosting this event.