FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of ...read more
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FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.
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Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary, Music
1h 35m
Not available for United States
1
1
Fire at Sea
Glass
Beaver Valley
My Uncle Tudor
Lemebel
Kiki
Be Like Others
Football Under Cover
Alcazar Cinema
Bixa Travesty
If It Were Love
The Brandon Teena Story
Caesar Must Die
Small Talk
The Pearl Button
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