NOT OVER
NOT OVER is concerned with the ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS on the lives of queer people.
NOT OVER is concerned with the ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS on the lives of queer people.
We screened, UNTITLED, a non-linear 60 minute film by Jim Hodges, Encke King, and Carlos Marques da Cruz, placing HIV / AIDS within the context of national and international moments.UNTITLED is a people’s history of the last 30 years with AIDS at its center.
After the screening we debriefed the impact of AIDS on our collective history, and together we discussed how we understand ongoing AIDS impacting our lives today, and into the future.
It was a heady discussion in which people made connections between the war in Iraq, the Rodney King bombing, their own sense of isolation, and HIV/AIDS.
In the winter of 2011, Quito Ziegler, L.J. Roberts, and Ted Kerr bonded over their passion for the film UNTITLED. After hanging out a few times, the trio decieded to channel their collective energy into creating a 3 part series for QuORUM (the annual brooklyn based Queer festival).
Entitled NOT OVER: You, Me, Us and AIDS, the series of events was rooted in wanting to address the ongoing trauma of HIV/AIDS within their queer communities. The structure of NOT OVER was based on the idea that to recover from trauma, stories needed to be told, stories need to be heard, and together storytellers and those who heard the stories, can begin to recover from the trauma by creating new stories together.
