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Buffalo Death Mask (2013)
Directed by Mike Hoolboom
Horror · 23m
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?"
Cast
Mike Hoolboom
Crew
- Director
- Mike Hoolboom
Details
- Release date
- 2013-03-24
- Runtime
- 23m
- Genres
- Horror
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada