Freedom from Everything
Personal film essay about two pandemics: AIDS and Coronavirus. Body memorials, survivor stories, remembrances. Both plagues are reframed by neoliberalism and its central mythology of personal freedom, brilliantly laid out in Hito Steyerl’s essay gem “Freedom from Everything” which is adapted and shapeshifted here. Pronouncing on the new precarity of the freelancer, Hito wryly observes that they have “freedom from everything,” from a good job, health care, affordable housing… Featuring Maggie Thatcher, Guy Fawkes, George Michael, James Baldwin, Akira Kurosawa and David Wojnarowicz.
Availability
Pas de version en français.
Credits
Direction
Mike Hoolboom
Technical information
Color
Color / Black and White
Image format
16:9
Sound
Stereo
Shooting format
Digital
Documentation
Images
Keywords
AIDS, SIDA, pandemic, Coronavirus, COVID-19, pandémie, plagues