Snow Job: The media hysteria of AIDS deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a “snow job” promoting increased homophobia, sexual discrimination and repression of gays.
Director: Barbara Hammer.
I am familiar w Barbara Hammer’s work but Ive never heard or seen this!! In 1986, this must have been excellent and hit hard…especially with the true hysteria. I remember all this very well. This is a good (but horrifying and awful) time capsule that can sit beside other works documenting the epidemic. It is also done in Hammer’s characteristic, experimental/visual style. Thanks for posting this.