Safe Sex is Hot Sex (1991)

3/4” SP
Public Service Announcement
Running Time: 4’

Available from:
Video Out Distribution
Frameline Distribution on the compilation She’s Safe

Nobody gets turned on by lists of do’s and don’ts. We need different strategies to help change sexual behaviour in the age of AIDS. This tapes attempts to eroticize safer sex practices and latex use. Rather than using explicit porn, the signifiers become gestural and facial to create an aura of eroticism. The address is pluri-sexual, the audience, everyone.

Screenings:
Premiere: The Kitchen, “Flesh Histories” curated by Tom Kalin – New York, 1992

Other Screenings Include:
Image et Nation Film and Video Festival – Montréal, 1993
Cinémateque Ontario, curated by Tom Waugh – 1994
Ed Video – Guelph, Ontario, 1997
Moving Images Centre – Auckland, New Zealand, 1997
Sarah Lawrence College – Bronxville, 1997
Brandeis University – Waltham, Massachusetts, 1997
One World Film Festival – Vancouver, 1996
Agnes Etherington Arts Centre – Kingston, Ontario, 1997
University of Tulsa – Oklahoma, 1998
Point Arena Film Festival – Gualala, California, 1998
Video In Studios – Vancouver, 1998
Making Scenes Film and Video Festival – Ottawa, 1999
University of Santa Barbara – 1999
Pacific Cinémateque – Vancouver, 2001
Kingston Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival – 2001
Outfest – Los Angeles, 2002

Broadcast:
Artist’s television Access San Francisco – 1999
Pridevision TV – 2002

Institutional Purchases:
New York University Library – 1998
San Francisco Public Library – 1999
New York Public Library – 1999
Pennsylvania State University Library – 2000
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore – 2001
University of Connecticut Library – 2001