"Still Beginning" Film Screening

In honor of the thirtieth annual Day With(out) Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art is partnering with Visual AIDS in a presentation of Still Beginning, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. Included films are Beat Goes On by Shanti Avirgan, Nyguyen Tan Hoang's After Heaven, Carl George's The Lie, Viva Ruiz's Chloe Dzubilo: Love Warrior, Iman Shervington's I'm Still Me, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres's (eye, virus), and Derrick Woods-Morrow's Much handled things are always soft. 

Altogether, the films work as a poignant reminder of artist Gregg Bordowitz's statement: "The AIDS crisis is still beginning." With a focus on continued urgency, they zone in on the contemporary moment, backed by the context and lessons of the last three decades. Subject matter covered includes anti-stigma work in New Orleans, public sex culture in Chicago, pioneering AIDS activism, and intergenerational conversations. 

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by NOMA's Public Programs Manager Jennifer Williams, featuring members of the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies Sian Green and Angie Brown, who are both featured in Iman Shervington's I'm Still Me. 2 pm–4 pm. Program is included with museum admission. noma.org.