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201819 minPGdoc-short

Fragments 83

201819 minPGdoc-short

Richard Millen's 1983 experimental film, shot in Brooklyn and the West Village, is recontextualized to explore themes of love, cinema, and the AIDS epidemic.

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Corentin Koskas,

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Richard Millen's 1983 experimental film, shot in Brooklyn and the West Village, is recontextualized to explore themes of love, cinema, and the AIDS epidemic.

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Fragments 83 rediscovers—and repurposes—Richard Millen 1983 experimental film If You Can’t Be with the One You Love, shot in Brooklyn and the West Village in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. The resulting documentary explores the hunt for sex/love, the joy of making cinema, and the inexorable passage of time.

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