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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.
In this hilar, ventive and pleasgly whimsil edy, a gay uple s ridiculo qut for a fortable mattrs transforms to a journey of acceptance and public openns wh their sexualy. I didn't thk that there was really much pot to or that was worth beg part of a gay llectn, but wasn't badly ma otherwise. Ellt was a b vlent for the stereotypil gay was no real substance to at all.
Spooners (2013)It was a very silly ltle film, but did get a pot across about how thgs n feel out the big, sry, wi world for gay men that are still a ltle b secure about their sexualy or might be an environment where that is potentially an issue, bee we never know how people will treat . Until recently when watchg the gay-themed short film We Are Animals, would be easy to say, ‘well, that would never happen’, but nsirg the panic and virtual hoe arrt imposed on those potentially exposed to Ebola recently, ’s perhaps not as extreme as might ially seem. The short tak to an alternate versn of the mid-1980s, where panic over HIV and AIDS has ed chaos and an thorarian regime to be imposed, where gay and HIV+ posive people are beg quaranted, locked up and forcibly strated.