Visual AIDS Movie Trailers
Most Popular Visual AIDS Trailers
Total trailers found: 31
Compulsive Practice Trailer (2016)
01 December 2016
For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS commissioned COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS.
Stones and Water Weight Trailer (2017)
01 December 2017
STONES & WATER WEIGHT responds to the need for new interpretations of HIV+ people. Mykki Blanco completes tasks that test the physical capabilities of the body and the boundaries of normative health to challenge society's perception on the fragilities of those who survive with the virus.
I Am... a Long-Term AIDS Survivor Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
Through a chorus of voices, Steed Taylor explores the difficulties of being a long-term AIDS survivor and the unexpected health problems facing many senior survivors.
Ministry of Health Trailer (2020)
01 December 2020
Ministry of Health employs the aesthetics of horror movies and silent film to evoke the adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on four men living with HIV in the city of Tlaxcala, Mexico Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2020 as part of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.
Chloe Dzubilo: There is a Transolution Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
Viva Ruiz invites transgender AIDS activist, artist, and beloved friend Chloe Dzubilo (1960–2011) to speak via never before seen Hi-8 footage filmed by Chloe's then-partner Kelly McGowan in the 1990s.
Sero Project Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
The Sero Project is a U.S.-based network of people living with HIV (PLHIV) and allies fighting for freedom from stigma and injustice.
Female Disappearance Syndrome Trailer (2020)
01 December 2020
Lucía Egaña Rojas challenges gendered representations of HIV and AIDS, investigating what Lina Meruane has termed “female disappearance syndrome”—the erasure of women living with HIV from conversations about the epidemic.
They Called it Love, But Was it Love? Trailer (2020)
01 December 2020
They Called it Love, But Was it Love? depicts scenes from the lives of kothis living in India. Reduced to a “risk group” by public health campaigns and misunderstood through Western notions of gender and sexuality, these protagonists have real lives and inhabit unique worlds with their own quests for fulfilment and love.
Evidence Trailer (2014)
01 December 2014
In evidence, Julie Tolentino’s naked, moving body articulates backward on her hands and knees, balancing a cluster of Asian medicine cups.
The Sister’s Journey Trailer (2025)
30 November 2025
Through a documentary style, The Sisters’ Journey explores the daily life of a transgender woman in Vietnam using drugs.
Much handled things are always soft Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
Much handled things are always soft unearths the unwritten and undocumented histories of public sex culture in the south-side of Chicago.
In the Future Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
In the Future tells the stories of people living with HIV in Mexico who have been unable to access treatment because of government corruption and widespread theft and looting of medication.
Voices at the Gate Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
Voices at the Gate juxtaposes the bucolic landscapes inhabited by women’s prisons with archival and contemporary audio recordings of poems, essays, and interviews produced by women of color in the early 1990s at the intersection of incarceration and HIV & AIDS activism.
Ghost in the Park Trailer (2025)
30 November 2025
Ghost in the Park traces the narratives of the community of Görlitzer Park, an area in Berlin known for public drug use and trade.
滴水希望 (Hope Drops) Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
A collaborative video project made with women living in Taiwan who use their cameras to process stress and stigma, and to share their experiences living with HIV.
I take care of myself / I’m careful Trailer (2020)
01 December 2020
Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the stigmatization of people living with HIV in the context of Chile’s capitalist and neoliberal regime.
Finding Purpose Trailer (2020)
01 December 2020
Finding Purpose reflects on the experience of producing a film about the lives of teens born with HIV in Uganda and the pervasive stigma that surrounded the project.
#Medstrike: Confronting the Non-Profit Industrial Complex Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
A chronicle of Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad’s 2017 medication strike against the Mazzoni Center, a LGBT health clinic in Philadelphia, and the direct action campaign by the Black and Brown Workers Cooperative that preceded it Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2021 as part of ENDURING CARE, a program of seven new videos highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic.
The SPOT Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
The SPOT (Safe Place Over Time) is dedicated to providing services and opportunities for wellness, empowerment, and leadership to young men in Jackson, Mississippi.
Nobleza(s) de Sangre Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
Two fragmented interviews with artists living with HIV in Puerto Rico mediate an audiovisual invocation of the late Boricua poet Manuel Ramos Otero who passed away from complications of the virus in 1990.
The Mersey Model Trailer (2021)
01 December 2021
Danny Kilbride interviews Professor John Ashton, a public health official who helped institute the Mersey Model of Harm Reduction in Liverpool in 1986, the first government-funded needle exchange program in the UK.
The Lie Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
The Lie is the latest in an ongoing series of short films by Carl George drawing on found footage and materials from the artist’s archive.
I'm Still Me Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
I'm Still Me explores how digital platforms have created community and connections for Sian, a Black woman living with HIV and navigating the stigma and misinformation that is prevalent in the American South.
(eye, virus) Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
Through an experimental collage of video and pictographs, (eye, virus) explores how conversations around disclosure, stigma, and harm reduction shift across generations and from public to private realms.
Positive Women's Network - USA Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
Positive Women’s Network – USA (PWN) is a national membership body of women living with HIV and allies that exists to strengthen the strategic power of all women living with HIV in the United States.
7 Years Later Trailer (2014)
01 December 2014
For 7 Years Later, Glen Fogel visited his ex-boyfriend Nathan Lee in Providence, RI and videotaped a conversation between the two of them.
I Remember Dancing Trailer (2019)
01 December 2019
I Remember Dancing brings together an intergenerational cast of "trans and queer gaysians" ruminating on the past and future of AIDS, activism, gay culture, love, and (un)safe sex.
Visual AIDS Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
Working with artists, curators, and art institutions on a national and international scale, Visual AIDS has never stopped commissioning and distributing projects at the intersections of art, AIDS and activism.
Tacoma Action Collective Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
Tacoma Action Collective is a partnership of Black community organizers working in grassroots action and education.
VOCAL-NY Trailer (2018)
01 December 2018
VOCAL-NY (Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders) is a New York-based grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people in order to create healthy and just communities.
Selections from the Ektachrome Archive Trailer (2014)
01 December 2014
Lyle Ashton Harris' Selections from the Ektachrome Archive 1986–1996 is a snapshot from 1986–1996, chronicling the moments—now memories—of this charged decade.
