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Eros Erosion
A meditation on transcience, trauma and taboo in the cruel wake of the AIDS epidemic
Overview
Transience and desire, and the silence and concealment surrounding sexuality, love, death, AIDS, and the fear of bereavement, are all touched upon among a rush of abstract and allegorical connections in this artist film from 1990 by Anna Thew.
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