23.11 – 07.12.2025 | ОNLINE
AnOther Love $tory: Women & AIDS
Taking Care of Yourself, Taking Care of EveryoneCanada, 30 minutes, 1990, fiction
Directors: Debbie Douglas, Gabrielle Micallef
AnOther Love $tory was produced to dispel the myths around HIV & AIDS for women in general, lesbians in particular. The video illustrates how relationships are affected when one or both partners must begin to grapple with the possibility of HIV infection. It also educates women on safer sex practices in an entertaining, non-threatening way.
The production of the video was a community effort, from scriptwriting to the post-production phase.
Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025
Debbie Douglas
Debbie Douglas, a Caribbean-Canadian, Toronto-based activist, was known to queer audiences chiefly for the impressive debut video, “AnOther Love $tory: Women and AIDS.” This strongly scripted and acted didactic narrative about the Caribbean-descended lesbian community and an interracial couple coming to grips with fear, denial, and prejudice about HIV was produced within the cable access project spearheaded by Balser and Greyson at the end of the 1980s. After being blocked from the airwaves, the tape circulated nonstop within educational and community organizations, and its happy ending, dental dams and all, stayed relevant as the years exacerbated the gendered epidemiology of HIV.
Gabrielle Micallef
Gabrielle Micallef, a Caribbean-Canadian, Toronto-based activist, was known to queer audiences chiefly for the impressive debut video, “AnOther Love $tory: Women and AIDS.” This strongly scripted and acted didactic narrative about the Caribbean-descended lesbian community and an interracial couple coming to grips with fear, denial, and prejudice about HIV was produced within the cable access project spearheaded by Balser and Greyson at the end of the 1980s. After being blocked from the airwaves, the tape circulated nonstop within educational and community organizations, and its happy ending, dental dams and all, stayed relevant as the years exacerbated the gendered epidemiology of HIV.
Other films in the program
Dear Lou Sullivan
USA, 6 minutes, 2014, experimental
Director: Rhys Ernst
This work by LA-based artist Rhys Ernst invokes the story of Lou Sullivan, trans man and AIDS activist largely responsible for establishing the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation.
Recipe for an Elder
Canada, 6 minutes, 2024, experimental/hybrid fiction
Director: JL Whitecrow
A dedication to First Nations women and Two-spirit people that are living with AIDS/HIV and the community organizations that offer Indigenous cultural programs as a means of healing.
Me Cuido
Chile, 6 minutes, 2020, experimental
Authors: Las Indetectables, Macarena Rodríguez, Osvaldo Guzmán
Me Cuido (I take care of myself/I’m careful) questions the relationship between colonial paradigms of health, religious guilt, and the stigmatization of people living with HIV in the context of Chile’s capitalist and neoliberal regime.
That Child with AID$
Brazil, 11 minutes, 2023, documentary
Directors: Lili Nascimento, Hiura Fernandes
Between archives, delusions, and memories, "That Child with AID$" revisits the forbidden memories of childhoods lived and still lived with HIV in Brazil. Inspired by the life and research of Lili Nascimento (stage name of Lírio Nascimento), the film is a ritual of collective healing where pain becomes language and forgetting, resistance.