e-flux presents Me, You, and Everyone We Know
Fig Trees
John Greyson
2009
104 Minutes
Courtesy of Vtape, Toronto
Date
Repeat screening Wednesday, August 18, 2021
Join us on e-flux Video & Film for an online screening of John Greyson’s Fig Trees (2009), streaming from Wednesday, July 7 through Tuesday, July 20, 2021.
In 1999, South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat went on a treatment strike, refusing to take his pills until they were widely available to all South Africans. This symbolic act became a cause célèbre, helping build his group Treatment Action Campaign into a national movement. Yet, with each passing month, Zackie grew sicker. Fig Trees was also inspired by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s opera Four Saints in Three Acts (1927).
Fig Trees is presented here as one of four films in Part Two | Gendering, Disgendering, Transgendering, the second of four programs in the online series Me, You, and Everyone We Know: Interrelationality, Alterity, Globalization programmed by Irmgard Emmelhainz for e-flux Video & Film. The series will run in four thematic parts from June 23 through August 18, 2021. Each part will include a two-week group screening, and a live discussion.
For more information, contact program [at] e-flux.com
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