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Eros Erosion
A meditation on transcience, trauma and taboo in the cruel wake of the AIDS epidemic
Animation & Artists Moving Image 1989 41 mins
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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