“We thought it would be meaningful to tell, even if only partially, this story of hope—drawn from real experience—to break through the aura of foretold death that has surrounded us ever since the discovery of the virus forced us to accept it as an uncomfortable companion to our lives.”
And if fate turns against you, saddling you with an unwanted partner—one far removed from your ideal, as inconvenient as it is unwelcome—like the AIDS virus, from which it seems impossible to break free, worse than the worst lover (“till death do you part…”), then you must reshuffle everything and scale back your dream. You must learn, even if you don’t want to, even if you don’t love them—not in the slightest—to negotiate with this partner of yours, so small yet so domineering; you must learn to live with them, to understand them, to accept their rules, their rhythms, their needs. It may even happen that this relationship endures over time, defying convention, establishing its own modus vivendi. Sometimes, this strange two-person affair, closed off from the outside world, might even evolve—opening itself to a third partner, forming a kind of uneven triangle in which each one, with their own peculiarities, finds their own angle, and thus their reason to coexist within this peculiar existential geometry.
The screening is part of the series VIVONO: Militant Cinema in the HIV-AIDS Era, curated by Michele Bertolino, Matteo Giampetruzzi, and Luca Barni.
Tickets: Full €6 / Reduced €5
