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Film
Summer 89
Marion Scemama
1989/ 2021, usa/ france, video transferred to digital, 25 min, english with English sdh
Filmed in 1989 and edited in 2021, Summer ‘89 is a video diary made while travelling to upstate New York with David Wojnarowicz and Scemama’s partner François Pain. The three pass a video camcorder from hand to hand, experimenting with apparent spontaneity and with a new medium, zooming in and out on one another. Made with a deceptively light touch, the film expresses a desire for freedom and queers the classic road movie genre, and its motif of escape from normative society. It is a manifestation of love, tenderness, intimacy, and friendship, but above all an affirmation of life in the face of Wojnarowicz’s AIDS diagnosis, which he had learned about shortly before the trip.
Captioning: Carefuffle