Michael Balser Trailers

Video maker, curator, producer, AIDS activist. New Brunswick-bred Michael Balser was part of the experimental video and Super 8 scene in Fredericton and Ottawa before finally putting down roots in Toronto in 1985. Balser continued his prolific output, combining activist documentary with experimental narrative and collage, up until his death in 2002. Dialogue said by an “AIDS Activist Action Figure” in his 1996 film Treatments might be thought of as his parting words: “...if I’m going to go, at least I’m going to go out fighting.”

Most Popular Michael Balser Trailers

Total trailers found: 5

The Great AZT Debate Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

AIDS activists discuss the merits and harms of AZT, one of the first drugs approved to treat HIV.

Voices of Positive Women Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Voices of Positive Women is a ground-breaking documentary examination of the impact of HIV and AIDS on the lives of women working from material published in the book "Positive Women", a collection of personal accounts of women from all over the world living with AIDS and HIV.

Positive Men Trailer (1995)

11 July 1995

Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s.

An Evening With Richard Locke Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Richard Locke was the star of the Gage Trilogy, ground-breaking feature length gay porn films made in the late seventies.

Survival of the Delirious Trailer (1988)

01 January 1988

A collaboration between a video artist and an artist who works primarily in painting and drawing. This collaboration has produced a mix of narratives which receates the delirium of the AIDS epidemic.