Sleeping Dragon
The death in May 2023 of George Hodson, artist, writer and long-term HIV/AIDS survivor, left a legacy of inspiration, unique visual art and unforgettable writing, drawn from direct experience. Evocative, surreal and unconventional short film adapted from the HIV/AIDS memoir Sleeping Dragon by the late George Hodson. An experience during the COVID pandemic reawakens memories of a very different pandemic. Painful memories of family intolerance and bigotry return, of long lost but powerfully enduring love, partnerships that survived enormous physical and emotional challenges to face a then inevitable ending, of a wryly revealing meeting with an instantly recognisable icon... It's the experience of living that does all the talking in George Hodson's exquisitely potent words and images. Surviving HIV/AIDS for some 45 years, cancer, loss, stigma, alienating family bigotry and racism, for some of the Queer Elder generation like George, triple combination therapy threw a lifeline that also became a lifetime of onward challenge. The film debuted in The Barbican's main house with the 2024 Director's Cut of Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex '97 to a sellout audience and moved swiftly on to an international premiere in India's movie capital Mumbai at KASHISH 2024 International Film Festival, followed by the prestigious Lighthouse Centre in SW UK (a Picturehouse cinema).
- 2024
- 0 Hrs 12 Mins
- Other
The death in May 2023 of George Hodson, artist, writer and long-term HIV/AIDS survivor, left a legacy of inspiration, unique visual art and unforgettable writing, drawn from direct experience. Evocative, surreal and unconventional short film adapted from the HIV/AIDS memoir Sleeping Dragon by the late George Hodson. An experience during the COVID pandemic reawakens memories of a very different pandemic. Painful memories of family intolerance and bigotry return, of long lost but powerfully enduring love, partnerships that survived enormous physical and emotional challenges to face a then inevitable ending, of a wryly revealing meeting with an instantly recognisable icon... It's the experience of living that does all the talking in George Hodson's exquisitely potent words and images. Surviving HIV/AIDS for some 45 years, cancer, loss, stigma, alienating family bigotry and racism, for some of the Queer Elder generation like George, triple combination therapy threw a lifeline that also became a lifetime of onward challenge. The film debuted in The Barbican's main house with the 2024 Director's Cut of Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex '97 to a sellout audience and moved swiftly on to an international premiere in India's movie capital Mumbai at KASHISH 2024 International Film Festival, followed by the prestigious Lighthouse Centre in SW UK (a Picturehouse cinema).
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