23.11 – 07.12.2025 | ОNLINE
That Child with AID$
Taking Care of Yourself, Taking Care of EveryoneOriginal title: Aquela criança com AID$
Brazil, 11 minutes, 2023, documentary
Directors: Lili Nascimento, Hiura Fernandes
Trailer
Between archives, delusions, and memories, “That Child with AID$” revisits the forbidden memories of childhoods lived and still lived with HIV in Brazil. Inspired by the life and research of Lili Nascimento (stage name of Lírio Nascimento), the film is a ritual of collective healing where pain becomes language and forgetting, resistance.
Content warning: mentions of institutional violence, medical neglect, death, flashing images
Film screening dates: 23.11.2025 — 07.12.2025
Lili Nascimento
Lili Nascimento (they/them) is a transpersonal psychologist, columnist, and artist who studies and works with children living with HIV and AIDS in Brazil. They work at the intersection of art and the clinic, provoking poetic and political possibilities for existence.
(Photo: Osani)
Hiura Fernandes
Hiura Fernandes (she/her) is a multi-visual artist, cultural producer, and product designer currently living in São Paulo, Brazil. Her works encompass photography, cinema, and audiovisual arts, employing an approach that merges body art with cinematic practices. She conducts research in Visual Anthropology, focusing on oral communication, the body, and ancestry, with an emphasis on the materiality of Black cultures in urban diasporas.
Among her notable works is the photographic essay “Necropolitics of AID$” (2016), which illustrated an edition of HIV Howler Magazine (2018) and was part of the collective exhibition “Body-Art: PositHIVe Revival” at the Centro Cultural Butantã, São Paulo (2020). In 2017, Hiura collaborated with actress Lady Vieira on the performance “(In)visible Bodies,” presented at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM). In 2023, she directed and produced the short film “That Child with AIDS” in partnership with Lírio Nascimento for Day With(out) Art 2023.
Additionally, Hiura serves as the curator for the video art and music video section of the Cine Diversidade Festival in Rio de Janeiro 2023, 2024, and 2025.
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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.
AnOther Love $tory: Women & AIDS
Canada, 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.