Boys on Film 11: We Are Animals: Directed by Rodrigo Barrio, Shaz Bent, Domic Haxton, Bryan Horch, Magn Mork, Carlos Augto Oliveira, Eldar Rapaport, Nicholas Verso. Wh Zaman Ahmadi, Akram Akbari, Matthew Ashford, Richard Ballon. A seri of eight short films alg wh the varied experienc of gay men and boys." data-id="ma
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GAY SHORT FILM SHOWSE: WE ARE ANIMALS – AN ALTERNATE HISTORY TAK TO A POLICE STATE PANIC OVER HIV
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We Are Animals is a fictn set the mid 1980s at the height of the AIDS panic· Morn viewers may fd the plot unbelievable - that gaymen uld be quaranted and placed ternment mps out of fears they would spread the disease jt by their physil prence· While never got que there, there were voic advotg steps very close to - AIDS sufferers were often shunned and isolated· Even the forcible stratn of gaymen the belief that would prevent the disease's spread was advoted· While this film is fictn, easily uld have bee a wispread realy were not for activists such as "Act Up, " and the medil profsn's relatively quick disvery of the methods of HIV spread (via bodily fluids) and s more-or-ls succsful ntrols. Norwegian filmmaker Magn Mork has pated a betiful portra of both gay and straight upl. It is the fourth short film to be produced by the Iris Prize, the world’s largt lbian and gay short film prize valued at £25, 000, after Mork won the short film prize 2010 for The Samaran.
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