Fast Trip, Long Drop

Fast Trip, Long Drop

AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary

Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Gregg is a friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker whose work has been formative to my thinking and teaching. This work, what I undertood to be the first "meta-AIDS doc," helped me to think about the various methods and liabilities of documentary strategies in relation to AIDS activism.

1993

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. --Video Data Bank

54 mins

Gregg Bordowitz

http://www.vdb.org/titles/fast-trip-long-drop

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11268390&node=50144533&a=100818544