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Doc on HIV/Aids in Western Europe
Tue, 30 Jun 2009
Blissfully Lost, the first collaboration between South African filmmaker Darell Lourens and German medical student Nele Jensen, was premiered in South Africa last week.
In this documentary Lourens and Jensen take advantage advantage of their different backgrounds to explore the perceptions of HIV/Aids among Western Europeans in their twenties and thirties and the influence of decades of public discourse on the collective conscience. Interspersed with testimonies of professionals working in the field and people talking about the impact that contracting HIV had on their life, the individual stories intertwine and transform into a narrative that gradually anatomises hegemonic images of HIV/Aids.
Entrapping the audience through its rawness and unvarnished characters Blissfully Lost not only challenges them to face their own personal bias and to question their own tacit understanding of invincibility. Ultimately it highlights the need of public discussion to reinvent its approach to the HIV/Aids situation.
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