Beginning in the 1980s, the world began to experience a silent crisis that would rock the world with its scale and global reach. AIDS would become a disease that would come to take enormous social, political and personal attention. The cost of this crisis is still counted in lives lost.
Gone by Normand Corbeil
GONE is a series of intimate portraits of individuals’ lives and times of this era – living in and around London Ontario. Far from the centre of this crisis this city could not escape the global reach of the AIDS crisis. A city is nothing without the people that live in it and this is only a handful of recollections of a time of much fear and loss. The personal cost of these times can never truly be known but the people that survived have a unique history to share.
Courage and hope is the underpinning to survival in the face of any great tragedy. Communities rally around a central cause to try to save lives and find a cure. In an ear of hairspray, neon and freedom was something that would change the way people would view people’s rights and protections.
this film is just in the beginning stages of pre-production but it has been an idea that has been in the back of my mind for some time. I grew up in the shadow of the AIDS crisis and felt the loss in every interaction as the generation to inherit the fight. as i develop this project, i would like to invite anyone with stories and/or history to contact me. I would like to celebrate those have been lost and to try to bring a little measure of comfort to those left behind.
thing change as a project begins to pick up momentum but i would urge anyone who wants to share their story to be open to sharing it with me.
thanks
mister norm
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