Frank's Cock
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Frank's Cock is a 1993 Canadian short film written and directed by Mike Hoolboom. The eight-minute production stars Callum Keith Rennie as an unnamed narrator who discusses his relationship with his p
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A scene from the film, depicting the use of each quadrant; the split screen effect has been described as evoking the physical effects of AIDS.
Letters from Home (film)
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Letters from Home is a 15-minute-long short film by Canadian director Mike Hoolboom. It follows a multitude of figures from the Toronto art community who deliver messages about living with AIDS, which
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…for the widespread dissemination of short films. Waugh placed Frank's Cock as one of a "great AIDS triptych", together with Hoolboom's later works Letters from Home (1996) and Positiv. The Canadian film scholar Darell Varga wrote that the film is an "emotionally riveting" eulogy to the loss of love. Karen Tisch…
Callum Keith Rennie had previously worked with Hoolboom on Frank's Cock in 1993.
Letters from Home was based on a 1988 speech by Vito Russo.