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Zero Patience is a 1993 Canadian musical film written and directed by John Greyson. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaëtan Dugas.
Aug 5, 1994 · Zero Patience: Directed by John Greyson. With John Robinson, Normand Fauteux, Dianne Heatherington, Richardo Keens-Douglas. An immortal, bigoted, unethical taxidermist is doing research on "Patient Zero", the gay flight attendant who allegedly was the first to bring AIDS to North America, for a museum show about contagious diseases ...
- (745)
- Musical
- John Greyson
- 1994-08-05
Apr 13, 2020 · Zero Patience: A Musical About AIDS. Directed by John Greyson, Strand Releasing, 1993. Eleanor Affleck is an MA Queer History student at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is focused on democratising public history and improving accessibility in the arts.
An immortal, bigoted, unethical taxidermist is doing research on "Patient Zero", the gay flight attendant who allegedly was the first to bring AIDS to North America, for a museum show about contagious diseases, helped by the man's ghost.
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- John Greyson
- 16
- John Robinson
- 100 min
Zero Patience begins with a bizarre anachronism: the famous explorer, Sir Richard Francis Burton, is still alive and working as the chief taxidermist for the Toronto Museum of Natural History. It seems that he did actually find the Fountain of Youth back in the 1800s.
The 19th-century English explorer Sir Richard Burton (John Robinson) meets the ghost of the first AIDS patient (Normand Fauteux), in Toronto.
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- Musical
