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Image credit: The Invisible Hippo of Grief: An Adoption Story, by Donna Szoke (2026)
2025, 28:49 minutes, colour
tapecode 193.16
In the early 1990s, Lloyd Wong began to make a work based on his experiences living with AIDS in Toronto, but he died from AIDS-related illnesses before completing it. For three decades, his work-in-progress was considered "long-lost" until it resurfaced at The ArQuives. In this experimental documentary, Lesley Loksi… ⊕
2023, 03:39 minutes, colour
tapecode 066.27
An ironic, top-down summary of the language used in real estate superimposed on a Canadian neighbourhood.
2020, 07:09 minutes
tapecode 2183.03
When I'm turned on, there's always that red light lit. When my body is on record. How can self-risk-taking be put to work in relation to aesthetic self-creation? HIV and AIDS are not over.This video is part of Zealley’s disco mirrorball video (the others are Becoming Mighty Real and METHodologies: A Chemsex Video).
M U S I C commences with a waiting piano and a collage of chattering voices at a concert hall. The voices chatter consistently for four minutes and thirty three seconds. There is a montage of various musical images but no music. Then the voices stop and there is another definitely non-musical sound. There is another closing… ⊕
Mandaeans by Water is a micro-short documenting the voice of my grandmother who is one of the few remaining indigenous Iraqi-Mandaeans still practicing the religion today. Baptisms and water are a vital part of the community as they are associated with accessing heavenly realms and act as a bridge between the earth and the… ⊕