FIG TREES is a documentary opera about AIDS activists Tim McCaskell of Toronto and Zackie Achmat of Capetown as they fight for access to treatment drugs. Documentary interviews, speeches, press conferences and demonstrations are sampled, taken apart, and set to music, replayed this time as operatic scenes. A surreal fictional narrative is intercut with the stories of their struggles against government and the pharmaceutical industry. In this fictional world, Gertrude Stein decides to write a tragic opera about Tim and Zackie and their saint-like heroism. She kidnaps them, transports them to Niagara Falls, and forces them to sing a series of complicated avant-garde vocal compositions. However, when Zackie ends his treatment strike and starts taking his pills, Gertrude realizes that there will be no more tragedy, and thus, no more opera.
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Cast
22 personen
Van Abrahams
Christopher Moraka
Ook in
Night of the Dribbler
Zackie Achmat
Christopher Moraka
John Greyson
Stephen Chen
Saint Caesura
Ook in
Door Prize
Damion Nurse
Ezra Perlman
St. Martin
Bekend van
Avenging Angelo
Jared Raab
Ashton Williams
Nkosi Johnson
Bill Layton
Alexander Chapman
Bekend van
Lilies
Denise Williams
St. Teresa of Avila
David Wall
Tim McCaskell
John Greyson Regie · Jared Raab Montage Bill Layton Production design
Release (Verenigde Staten) 23 mei 2009 · Gemaakt in Canada
Productie
Canada
Gemaakt in
Talen
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels
Gesproken
Engels
Releasedatums
Canada · 9 februari 2009
Bioscoop
Verenigde Staten · 23 mei 2009
Seattle International Film Festival
Duitsland
9 februari 2009 · Berlin International Film Festival
Frankrijk
21 november 2009 · Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Nederland
1 november 2009 · IDFA Festival
Polen
10 december 2009 · Watch Docs Film Festival
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