22 GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE MAY 14, 1993

ENTERTAINMENT

WVIZ to air AIDS video diary shown at Film Festival

Silverlake Life:

The View from Here

WVIZ Channel 25

Tuesday, June 15, 10 pm

Reviewed by Martha Pontoni

This was the one movie at the Cleveland International Film Festival that I wasn't going to see. I didn't have to watch this movie, I lived this movie just a few months back. I certainly wasn't alone in my fears and my need for avoidance. Almost everyone I talked to said they weren't going.

But we did go, and our fears came true. We watched yet another friend die and just

like before, no matter how painful it got, we were glad we were there.

Silverlake Life: The View from Here is a video diary of filmmaker Tom Joslin and his lover of 22 years, Mark Massi. Both men have AIDS and the video chronicles their last months together before Josling dies.

Set in the heart of Los Angeles' Silverlake neighborhood, the film follows the two men through their daily triumphs and sorrows, struggling valiantly to comfort and care for each other as even the simplest activities become excruciatingly difficult. Everyday chores, medical treatments, even

Dykes To Watch Out For

AFTERGLOW

A BUS FULL OF WEARY BUT

EXHILARATED MARCHERS WENDS ITS WAY HOMEWARD FROM OUR NATION'S MOMENTARILY QUEER CAPITAL.

So

WHERE'D YOU END UP STAYING,

MO?

ON THE FLOOR WITH EIGHT OTHER PEOPLE AT MY COUSIN'S HOUSE IN THE BURBS. MY NECK IS DISLOCATED AND I HAVEN'T SLEPT IN SIXTY HOURS.

a stroll in the park require what Joslin jokingly calls "a brave effort of physical dynamism."

You get to love the two of them. You watch how they take care of themselves and each other. You watch their families and friends visit and be part of their lives.

Peter Friedman, Joslin's student and friend who had the daunting task of editing over 40 hours of film after Joslin died explains, "It's a first-person diary made by someone who wasn't around to finish it. And absence is really part of what the film is about... For me, that absence symbolizes the absence of people everywhere who

CMERE. I'LL RUB YOUR NECK TILL MAXINE GETS BACK TO HER SEAT.

JEEZ, MO. WHO'D WANNA COME TO THE BABEFEST OF THE CENTURY AND SLEEP? I'M SO PUMPED ON ADRENALINE I DON'T THINK I'll COME DOWN TILL NEXT WEEK.

aren't where they should be, because of the devastation AIDS has brought to this country and to the world."

Silverlake Life has achieved world-wide praise since its completion in January 1993. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Freedom of Expression Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, it has also won awards in Berlin and San Francisco.

Silverlake Life: The View from Here opens the sixth season of P.O.V., the PBS network's acclaimed series of independently produced non-fiction films. It will be seen locally on WVIZ Channel 25 on Tuesday, June 15 at 10 pm. ✓

DIDJA MAKE YOUR QUOTA, LOIS?

YUP. KISSED A WOMAN A FEW SEATS BACK.....

FROM EVERY STATE

IN THE UNION. RHODE ISLAND WAS A DRAG QUEEN, THOUGH. Do YOU THINK THAT COUNTS?

GINGER, WHAT

DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T LEAVE YOUR HOTEL? NOT EVEN FOR THE RALLY?

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HEY, MALIKA

AND I HADN'T SEEN EACH OTHER IN MONTHS.

WE JUST LOST TRACK

OF TIME.

WOW.

I HOPE SHE GOT SOME OF THAT ON VIDEO.

AND UP FRONT...

YEAH, I'M COMPLETELY WIPED OUT, BUT IT WAS WORTH IT. I'M SO GLAD THE BABY GOT TO PICK UP THAT INCREDIBLE ENERGY.

WHAT ARE

YOU TWO GONNA DO WITH YOURSELVES NOW THAT THE MARCH IS

OVER?

GOSH, I DUNNO. NO MORE LATE-NIGHT MEETINGS, NO MORE PHONES RINGING OFF THE HOOK, NO MORE FRENZIED LAST-MINUTE

ORGANIZING...

WELL, AS

SOON AS I GET THREE MONTHS' WORTH OF LAUNDRY DONE, I'M GONNA RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL.

THANKS. THAT WAS GREAT.

LOIS! OMIGOD! YOU WERE RIGHT... I DO HAVE A CRUSH ON THEA! WHAT'M I GONNA DO?!

LEMME SEE...A COLD SPONGE BATH IN THE LAVATORY SOUNDS ABOUT YOUR SPEED.

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