AIDSThe fact that one to two new diagnoses of HIV and AIDS are still recorded every day in Austria, and that according to the UN World AIDS Report the number of people now infected with HIV has reached 60 million, means that this topic remains an urgent one. Although the number of new infections has fallen in the last 10 years by 20 percent, AIDS is still an important issue and affects us all, not just uneducated South Africans, or Thai sex workers, or impoverished Haitians, or whatever other cliche the media loves to drag out.
In 2011 identities looks back into the 70s with the queer dance group Dzi Croquettes, remembers with Last Address many of the New York artists we have lost to AIDS, and in Precious we encounter a film about the power to mobilize oneself against one's own destiny, even if at the beginning they are only small steps.
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Dzi Croquettes
Issa, Raphael Alvarez Tatiana
Brazil 2009, DigiBeta PAL, color and B/W, 98 min, OV w/English ST - Austrian Premiere
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Last Address
Ira Sachs
USA 2009, Digital, color, 9 min, no dialog - Austrian Premiere
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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Lee Daniels
USA 2009, 35mm, color, 109 min, OV w/ German ST
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