A Boy’s Life
2018, English. Directed by Mike Hoolboom.
Originally cast as the second part of a six-part feature Panic Bodies (1998), the original 16mm negatives were rescued courtesy of the Cinematheque Quebecoise, then rescanned, recut, and reimagined. They were shot in 1996, the year the AIDS cocktail arrived. It’s not uncommon during illness to experience one’s body grow as large as the world, here the body is figure and ground, friend and enemy, projection surface fragments, memory machine. I asked the excellent performance artist Ed Johnson if he could come by and perform in this psychodrama of loss and longing.
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- 20 July 2018
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If you liked A Boy’s Life, try The Faculty, Causeway, Living in Oblivion.
Who directed A Boy’s Life?
A Boy’s Life (2018) was directed by Mike Hoolboom.