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Fig trees
Title
Fig trees / written, directed and produced by John Greyson.
Edition
Widescreen.
Published
Toronto : Vtape, 2009.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Composer, David Wall ; directors of photography, Ali Kazimi, Jesse Rosensweet ; design, Bill Layton ; editor, Jared Raab.
Summary
"Fig Trees" is a documentary opera about AIDs activists Tim McCaskell in Toronto and Zackie Achmat in Capetown, as narrated by an albino squirrel, an amputee busker and St. Teresa of Avila. Telling the story of Zackie's AIDS treatment strike in song, and the larger story of the fight for pills on two continents, and across two decades, "Fig Trees" performs musical and political inversion on the music and words of Gertrude Stein's 1934 avantgarde classic "Four Saints in Three Acts."
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Undetermined
Added to Catalog
August 14, 2018
Credits
Composer, David Wall ; directors of photography, Ali Kazimi, Jesse Rosensweet ; design, Bill Layton ; editor, Jared Raab.
Performers
Van Abrahams, David Wall, Denise Williams, Deb Overes, Ezra Perlman, Alexander Chapman,
System details note
DVD.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Experimental films.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Experimental films.
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