Buffalo Death Mask (2013) : distribution, intrigue et streaming

Released in 2013, Buffalo Death Mask is a notable film directed by Mike Hoolboom.

What it’s about. For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic — on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question “Why are we still here when so many are gone?"

Who’s in it. Buffalo Death Mask stars Mike Hoolboom as Himself.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Buffalo Death Mask page.