Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Joslin always had a thing for cameras. In the mid '70s, while he was teaching at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, he made a film about his coming out as a gay man. So it wasn't surprising that when he and his lover, Mark Massi, got sick with AIDS, Tom picked up the camera once again. The couple, who shared a house in Los Angeles, took turns shooting their day-to- day activities as the disease progressed. When Tom died, Mark finished up, and when Mark died, the film was completed by a friend, Peter Friedman. The result is Silverlake...
...what Silverlake Life shows: the inexorable physical decline, the attempts to maintain some semblance of a normal life as long as possible, the last visits with family and friends. What may be less familiar is the film's unsparing honesty. Tom, who talks freely and candidly to the camera before he cannot talk at all, swerves from petulance (left alone in the car while Mark does some household errands: "We were gonna go right home!") to nearly unbearable despair ("I feel so empty, and I feel so pointless, and I have so much trouble remembering anything good I've done...
When an abortive anti-war rally during the Gulf War attracted more camera-noting first-years than earnest anti-militarists, student politics past and present lamented: Campus politics at Harvard is not what it used...
...when Kevorkian attended the suicide of Ronald Mansur, a Realtor with bone and lung cancer, he did not bring a video camera, and when it was over, he did not call a press conference. There was no suicide note; there were no relatives looking on and no explanations. Just an anonymous call to 911, telling police where to find the body -- in effect, telling the State of Michigan to go to hell...
...tapes are remarkable. As a small mechanical clock with little whirling brass balls runs in the background, Kevorkian, palpably nervous and excited, ! introduces the sisters, Dan, Les and himself to the camera, operated by the doctor's sister Margo. In the first of the three taped sessions, over 2 1/2 months, he addresses mostly Sue's medical condition and her intent. Her voice is sometimes hard to follow because her disease has affected her speech. At his request, she attempts vainly to move three of her limbs and then manages, precariously, to pick up a cup of coffee with...