About the Event
For Day With(out) Art 2025, Visual AIDS announces Meet Us Where We’re At, a screening program that forefront the experiences of drug users and harm reduction practices as they intersect with the ongoing HIV crisis.
Meet Us Where We’re At features six newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:
- Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria)
- Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam)
- Gustavo Vinagre & Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal)
- Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil)
- Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany)
- José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico)
Video Synopses
Kenneth Idongesit Usoro, Voices of Resilience
Voices of Resilience follows the lives of queer individuals and drug users living with HIV in Nigeria. Through personal interviews and experimental visual storytelling, the film shows the protagonists’ worlds as they seek out underground harm reduction services.
Hoàng Thái Anh, The Sister’s Journey
Through a documentary style, The Sister’s Journey explores the daily life of a transgender woman in Vietnam using drugs. The film delves into her fear of stigma, struggles she faces, and the vital role of harm reduction services and healthcare available to her.
Gustavo Vinagre and Vinicius Couto, The passion according to G.H.B.
In the magical realist film, The passion according to G.H.B., a gay man reminisces about his orgy days and chem sex, and considers his future while speaking with an apparition of G.H., a canonical fictional character of Brazilian literature.
Camilo Tapia Flores, Realce (Highlight)
Realce is a documentary short following two HIV-positive friends, DJ Deseo and porn actor Fernando Brutto, during one of their performances at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival. The duo move through the streets of Rio and Carnival “blocos,” sharing their reflections on friendship, undetectability, their relationship with sex, and drug use within their own community.
Camila Flores-Fernández, Ghost in the Park
Ghost in the Park traces the narratives of the community of Görlitzer Park, an area in Berlin known for public drug use and trade. Highlighting “drug consumption buses” that promote safer use and aim to reduce HIV transmission among drug users, the space of the bus is taken as an axis through which the experiences and feelings of the community around the park are amplified.
José Luis Cortés, ¿Por qué tanto dolor? (Why so much pain?)
Instead of asking, “Why so much meth in the gay community?,” Cortés’s experimental film provokes the deeper question, “Why so much pain?” The film delves into the emotional and social wounds that fuel addiction and risk-taking behaviors.
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