DIRECTORS IN FOCUS

Charles Lum, New York

24.10., 22:30, Moviemento 3

The HIV Collection
USA, 2003-2005, 50 minutes, Charles Lum, English original version
During the years 2003-2006, director Charles Lum created six films documenting his life and feelings as HIV+ man. Six movies that give a brave and unusual portrait of a man dealing with fears, passions, and the desire to love:

Morning, Noon and Night
USA, 2003, 10 minutes
A montage of the director documenting his body, the pills, a visit to a Glory Hole, with frames from the "The Hours".


Park
USA, 2004, 7 minutes
Charles documents himself in a fling at a public park, using a hidden camera.


Facts. SUCK
USA, 2004, 12 minutes
An emotional and physical exposure by the artist. Charlie goes to a blood test, for a chat with the doctor, to a pharmacy, undresses in front of the camera and reveals his longing to be desired.


Indelible
USA, 2003, 8 minutes
Blood is paralleled to semen in a hair-raising montage of shots taken out of the film "Carrie" (by Brian de Palma) and from gay bareback porn movies.


Overdue Conversation
USA, 2006, 9 minutes
Charlie talks to a friend about their common state as HIV+: should they tell people they have sex with about their condition?


Black adj, n
USA, 2004, 3,5 minutes
Behind the scenes of the famous Black Party, in one of the inner rooms where a conversation with a clubber takes place about his sexual experiences during the event.


Charles Lum is a New York based artist working in video using documentary and cinematic narrative, photo and performance.
A 2004 MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Charles is also a career Location Manager and Director's Guild of America Assistant Director with twenty years experience scouting and managing feature film and television commercial locations across North America. Lum's short video collection has been exhibited internationally. Varied in content, most works deal confrontationally with gay sexuality ethics and how the changing realities of HIV affect culture and personal experience. Programmed regularly at prominent Gay Film Festivals, Charles has presented work in academic lecture and a variety of art venues.


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Abbreviations:
H = Heterosexual, S = Gay, L = Lesbian, T = Transgender, NX = does not contain explicit sex scenes, X = contains explicit sex scenes, D = documentary film, FT = Fetish, SW = Sexwork (films on sex work and prostitution), F = films made by female directors, A = animation