28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Buffalo Death Mask
director: Mike Hoolboom
original title: Buffalo Death Mask
country: Canada
year: 2013
running time: 23 min.
synopsis
The filmmaker’s personal conversation with Canadian author Stephen Andrews about living with HIV is an intimate look at extreme situations and difficult-to-describe states of body and mind. The openness of the conversation reveals the maturity of meditations on sharing, isolation, the relationship to physical changes, and the subtle boundary between life and death.
Footage from various sources and periods in the filmmaker’s life is complemented with hand-written titles that emphasize the film’s diary-like nature with a sense for detail, with the sensitive inclusion of self-reflection when describing relationships or counting pills.
more about film
director: | Mike Hoolboom |
producer: | Mike Hoolboom |
music: | Machinefabriek, Jasper Tx |
sound: | Mike Hoolboom |