WATCH: Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993) by Gregg Bordowitz
In the spring of 1988, video-maker/activist Gregg Bordowitz tested HIV-antibody positive. He then quit drinking and taking drugs and came out to his parents as a gay man. This imaginative autobiographical documentary began as an inquiry into these events and the cultural climate surrounding them. While writing the film, a close friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and his grandparents were killed in a car accident. The cumulative impact of these events challenged his sense of identity, the way he understood his own diagnosis, and the relationships between illness and history.
”Delphine’s sad. This isn’t her day. What’s wrong? Who knows!”
The Green Ray (1986, dir. Eric Rohmer)
This is only a dream. I’m asleep, and all this is a dream.
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970) dir. Jaromil Jireš