IT'S MY LIFE
Original language title: [same]

Country of production: South Africa
Year: 2001
Language: English, Afrikaans
74 mins.

As AIDS destroys his population, South African President Thabo Mbeki has publicly doubted the link between the disease and the HIV virus. In 1998, after having lived with HIV for ten years, a man decides not to take anti-retroviral medications until they become available and affordable through the public health sector. This form of protest brings a ferocious toll on the protestor himself.

Director: Brian Tilley
Script: Brian Tilley
Cinematography: Giulio Biccari
Music: Philip Miller
Editing: Ronelle Loots
Sound: Abraham Kapa
Producer: Dominant 7
Production Company: Big World Cinema
Source:
Brian Tilley
c/o Dominant 7
154 sue Oberkampf
75011 Paris, France
dominant7@free.fr

Brian Tilley is a native of Johannesburg. He has written and directed a number of films for South African and European television, including the fiction work THE LINE aka IN A TIME OF VIOLENCE (1994), and the documentaries FRUITS OF DEFIANCE (1989) and JOHANNESBURG STORIES (1996). He is a founding member of the VNS/Afravision video collective, set up in 1985 to document socio-political events in South Africa.

Monday, March 24
7pm
Gallery Theatre
Screening with XAVO-XAVI