Female Disappearance Syndrome (movie)

Female Disappearance Syndrome (movie)

  • Production country: US
  • Producer: Lucía Egaña Rojas
  • Production companies: Visual AIDS
  • Release date: 12/1/2020
  • Run time: 7 min.

Movie description

Lucía Egaña Rojas challenges gendered representations of HIV and AIDS, investigating what Lina Meruane has termed “female disappearance syndrome”—the erasure of women living with HIV from conversations about the epidemic. Commissioned by Visual AIDS in 2020 as part of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.