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2009-02-091h 40m

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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.

Directors
John Greyson
Editors
Jared Raab

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  1. Van Abrahams

    Van Abrahams

    Christopher Moraka

  2. Zackie Achmat

    Zackie Achmat

    Christopher Moraka

  3. Stephen Chen

    Stephen Chen

    Saint Caesura

  4. Ezra Perlman

    Ezra Perlman

    St. Martin

  5. Ashton Williams

    Ashton Williams

    Nkosi Johnson

  6. Denise Williams

    Denise Williams

    St. Teresa of Avila

  7. David Wall

    David Wall

    Tim McCaskell

  8. Deborah Overes

    Deborah Overes

    Gertrude Stein

  9. Mark Hartmeier

    Mark Hartmeier

    St. Peregrine

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Original Language
English
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