Merging images, creating other narratives: minor educations on HIV/AIDS and(in) movies

Abstract

This paper aims to mobilize minor educations in HIV/AIDS possible with/in/from films through cartography that takes place in written and image experiments embryonated in the encounter with cinematographic productions. To this end, three contemporary audiovisual narratives are permeated – 120 Beats per minute (2017), Letter beyond the walls (2019) and How to survive a plague (2012) – which deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic at different times and spaces. In the films, the dimensions of the body, desire, sexuality, life and death are touched on through stories of struggle, love, friendship, solidarity, stigma, violence, beginnings and ends, mobilizing the author in creations – written and imagery – in approaches to science, biology and health education. Such productions allow for important reflections on LGBTQ+ existences and the subjectivation processes that impact them through apparatus that manage their bodies and desires. In cartographic inspirations, images and sounds move writings-encounters about affections that touch the author’s body and also inspire image manipulations that allow thinking and articulating minor educations in HIV/AIDS. Thus, it appears that, when dealing with issues around HIV/AIDS and education, the paths are not ready. In this way, it is argued that audiovisual narratives educate by themselves and can also be used in the establishment of minor, militant educations, engaged with the confrontation of stigmas, articulated with the experimentation of desire and the defense of life in its potency.