Movie Description
Buffalo Death Mask
(2013)Overview
For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic — on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question “Why are we still here when so many are gone?"
Featured Crew
- Director : Mike Hoolboom
- Cast : Mike Hoolboom,Louise Bak,Stephen Andrews
Cast
Facts
Original TitleBuffalo Death Mask
Status Released
Release Information
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2013-03-24
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 00h 23m
Genres
- Horror