Film Archive
African perspectives 1987
Length: 04:38
This is an excerpt from one of the first documentaries on AIDS and Africa produced by British Channel 4 in 1987. The title of the film was “African Perspectives”, focusing on how the virus started to spread at an alarming rate through the Pan African Highway in countries like Uganda and Tanzania in the late 80´s.
AIDS Outreach among male prostitutes in Sydney 1988
Length: 05:34
HIV-prevention started early in Australia, and one of the most well known projects was The Albion Street Clinic in Sydney. This segment was filmed with dr. Julian Gold one of the founders of the project, a night in March 1988 when visiting prostitute teenage boys in “the Wall”. The film also shows the activities of the Australian Prostitutes Collective (APC), focusing on female sex workers in Sydney.
Australian prostitutes collective 1988
Length: 05:49
This film, shot in Sydney in April 1988, shows how Judy, an AIDS-activist from the Australian Prostitutes Collective visit a legal brothel in Sydney. She is educating the female sex workers and informing them about safe sex, condoms and how to protect themselves. A young prostitute, Chrissie, is also interviewed.
Bronx AIDS and drugs 1988 (Long version)
Length: 07:05
This film shows how HIV and AIDS hit the Bronx in New York, filmed in April 1988. The film focus on a narcotics police squad from the 47th Precinct in the Bronx and how they try to cope with the growing threat of HIV, particulary among injecting drug users. Many people in the Bronx was scared of HIV/AIDS and wanted to blame certain groups.
Excerpts from an interview with Sharon Stone
Length: 01:53
The famous Hollywood actress Sharon Stone, became an AIDS activist in 1995,when she started working together with Elisbath Taylor in the American Foundation for AIDS research(AmFar). Sharon Stone has since then been instrumental in raising funds for AIDS research, targeting the AIDS situation in the hard hit developing countries.She granted the Face of AIDS producer Staffan Hildebrand a long personal one to one interview, when she visited the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm in an international AIDS seminar, She tells her story when she first confronted AIDS in 1984, when she participated in a movie with Rock Hudson. One ear later he died of AIDS.
Excerpts from interview with Martin Delaney, Founding Director, Project Inform, May 2006
Length: 06:10
This interview with Martin Delaney, founder and director of the San Fransisco based Project Inform, was made in 2006. He was one of the early AIDS-activists when AIDS hit hard in San Fransisco in the early 80´s. This is a segment from a longer Face of AIDS one to one interview.
Excerpts from one to one interview with Anthony Fauci, M.D., Director NIAID at NIH, April 2006
Length: 06:53
Dr Anthony Fauci is head of US AIDS research since the 80´s. He is Director of the National Institute of Allergy, Infectious Diseases and AIDS, (NIAID) at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. He is interviewed about his longtime experiences in the global fight agains HIV/ AIDS. This is a segment from a three hour long interview made in his Georgetown home by Staffan Hildebrand in April 2006.
Excerpts from one to one interview with James Curran, M.D., Dean, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, April 2006
Length: 07:07
This is an excerpt from a one to one interview made by Staffan Hildebrand, Face of AIDS in April 2006 with dr James Curran, former director at the US Centers for Diseasae Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and today Dean at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He speaks about his longtime experiences in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Dr Curran is one of the early pioneers in fighting HIV/ AIDS on the global arena.
Excerpts from one to one interview with Larry Kramer, writer and AIDS activist, May 2006
Length: 07:33
This excerpt from a long interview with pioneer AIDS activist and writer Larry Kramer from New York, was made in his New York apartment April 2006, highlights the early years of American AIDS activism. Kramer founded the Gay Men´s Health Crisis in New York in 1985. Interview made by Staffan Hildebrand.
Hemophilia and HIV/AIDS in the early years
Length: 02:38
This film, edited in 2006, focus on one of the early “risk groups” for cathing HIV, the hemophiliacs. The story of Ryan Whyte, a hemophiliac HIV infected American boy, and how he became a symbol in the fight against discrimination and stigma is highlighted in the film. Dr Phil Pizzo, Dean of Stanford Medical School, explains the importance of the hamophiliacs in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the US.
Interview with Dr Jonathan Mann. WHO, Geneva, 1988
Length: 07:43
Dr Jonathan Mann first confronted AIDS in central Africa in the early 80´s. He became the first Director of the Global Program on AIDS at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He died in 1998 and is remembered for his unque leadership role in the global fight against HIV/AIDS. This is an excerpt from a longer interview made in Geneva in March 1988 by Staffan Hildebrand, and was one of the first interviews made in the Face of Aids documentation project.
Interview with Justice Michael Kirby
Length: 02:08
The Australian based Justice Michael Kirby, has since mid 80´s been one of the strongest international advocates to connect the fight against HIV/AIDS to human rights. This interview was made in Sydney at his office in april 1988 and is an excerpt of a longer interview made by Staffan Hildebrand.
Interview, Rev. Guiseppe Brunetta. Milan Italy 1988
Length: 03:42
Italy was hit by HIV/AIDS in the eary 80´s. The response to HIV/AIDS from the strong Italian Catholic Church was ambivalent at the top level in the early phse of the epidemic. Italian AIDS activists accused the Catholic Church to promote stigma and discrimination through its ideology. But at the street level many Italian Catholic priests took an active part in caring for the AIDS patients and also in trying to communicate with young people about sex and condoms. Father Guiseppe Brunetta, involved in HIV prevention and caring for patients in Milan, gives his view of how to best fight HIV/AIDS based on his Christian values. Filmed in May 1988.
Lyle Taylor, living and dying with AIDS, Sydney 1988
Length: 07:54
The writer Lyle Taylor was among the first persons openly living with HIV/AIDS in Australia. He was involved in the fight against stigma and discrimination. He gave this interview to Staffan Hildebrand, for the Face of AIDS in March 1988, just ten hours before he died of AIDS. His physician dr. Charles Dwyer from St Vincent Hospital in Sydney, where Taylor was treated, is also interviewed.
Paris teenagers and AIDS 1988
Length: 05:27
The French response to AIDS came rather quickly in the mid 80´s. The national campaigns focused on young people and safe sex. This film, shot in Paris in March 1988, depicts a group of teenagers in Paris and their attidtudes on HIV/AIDS and safe sex. Dr Didier Yale, a Paris AIDS doctor is talking to the teenagers about HIV/AIDS.
Report on boy prostitution 1987 in Rio (Long version)
Length: 05:12
In this film the sitauation of teenage prostitution in Copacabana is higlighted. Two teenage prostitutes is interviewed of how they protect themselves from HIV. Dr Eleonora Quinhoe,a Rio AIDS doctor, comments on how prostitution among young males and their clients increases the spread of HIV in Brazil. Rio politician Fernando Gabeira, involved in the the AIDS fight in Brazil, is also interviewed.
Report on boy prostitution 1987 in Rio (Short version)
Length: 02:20
Brazil was hit early on by AIDS. The virus was spread among poor people living in the favellas. Male prostitution was one way in which HIV was spread. The clients were often married men, and they bought sex from young men, without their wifes knowing it. Filmed in 1987.
Report on Bronx, AIDS and injection drug abuse. (Short version)
Length: 02:50
Early on the Bronx, New York was hard hit by HIV because of the vast numbers of injecting drug users. There was 250 000 drug users in the Bronx in 1988, half of them infected by the virus by 1988, when this story with the 47th Police Precinct was filmed. Maria Fuentes is a victim of the injection drug abuse (IV) and was infected by her husband. The AIDS activists demanded more politicians in New York to act.
San Francisco - The early years
Length: 04:00
This film highlight the early dramatic years of the AIDS pandemic in San Fransisco between 1978 – 1981. The vibrant Castro neighborhood became the epicenter of the epidemic. Doctor Selma Dritz, infectious disease specialist gives her unique recollection. Martin Delaney, Project Inform remembers the early years. In the end of the film, dr Paul Volberding, a pioneer in the fight against AIDS in San Fransisco, is reflecting on the early response, in an interview made 1998.
San Francisco AIDS situation 1988
Length: 05:51
This film was shot in April 1988 with dying AIDS patients at the Ward 84 at the San Fransisco General Hospital, a hospital quickly becoming world known for their effort to take care of the AIDS patients. This was the early phase of the epidmeic and there was no functioning medication to treat AIDS patients. The film includes interviews with AIDS pioneers Paul Volberding, Mervyn Silverman and Ron Stall.
Story of AIDS activism in the US
Length: 04:15
This film focus on some major milestones in American AIDS activism, as a response to the rapid spread of HIV in the USA between 1985 – 1996. The film highlights violent demostrations between Aids activists and police. The famous Aids activist and writer Larry Kramer and the head of US Aids research Dr Anthony Fauci recolects ther memories from a confrontational time. The Quilt Names Project, to commemorate those who died of AIDS, and Project Inform, both based in San Fransisco, are also highlited in the film.
Thailand - Confronting HIV/ AIDS
Length: 05:50
This film will give you a quick overview of how the AIDS situation in Thailand, has developed between 1988 - 2004. After the early phase, a political leadership at top level helped to mobilze the community to successfully fight HIV/ AIDS. At the center was the Senator Mechai Viravaidya, in media called Mr Condom. He has been a real pioneer, in halting the spread of HIV/ AIDS in Thailand. Today there is free distribution of anti retro virals to people living with HIV and AIDS. This film ends with a story shot in 2004 about seventeen year old orphan, On, living with HIV since birth. She now lives at an orphanage and gets free medication each day. Her dream is that all people living with HIV/ AIDS will have free access to anti retro viral treatment.
The crack epidemic in Bronx 1989
Length: 06:51
This film focus on the emerging crack epidemic situation in the Bronx and how a narcotics squad in March 1989 are arresting a teenage drug dealer in the Berkland area of the Bronx and bring him to the 47th Precinct headquarter for questioning. The connection with the drug epidemic and the spread of HIV/AIDS is very clear.
The story of anti- retroviral treatment
Length: 03:22
This film highlights the development of AIDS drugs from the first one, AZT in 1986 to the introduction of anti retro viral treatment (ARV) in 1996 and to the second generation ARV in 2004. Martin Delaney from the Project Inform, San Fransisco, AIDS expert dr Anthony Fauci from the federal US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and dr. Robert Gallo, co-discoverer of HIV, comments on the rapid development. AIDS patients on ARV are also interviewed in the film.
Uganda - The early years
Length: 02:50
This film on Uganda, shows some unique images from Uganda, central Africa, from 1986, in the early phase of the AIDS pandemic, when truck drivers and prostitutes spread the virus. Thease images are excerpts from Channel 4, London documenary "African Perspevtives" from 1986. Uganda became one of the worst hit countries in Africa early on. Rose Kizito from the TASO Project, explains how Aids hit the Rakai district in 1982. Norein Kaleeba, founder of the TASO project makes a personal reflection of the early years and comparing Uganda and San Francisco.
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