Two Screenings

Habit (2001)

Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993)

On occasion of Gregg Bordowitz's This is Not a Love Song at The Brick, we are thrilled to announce the screening of Bordowitz's Habit (2001) on March 14th and Fast Trip, Long Drop (1993) on March 15th. These screenings will be held at our favorite theatre Now Instant Image Hall!

Habit, 2001, 52min

Friday, March 14th, 2025, doors at 6:30, screening at 7pm
Now Instant Image Hall, 939 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA
Followed by Q&A with Gregg Bordowitz
Link to free RSVP

Habit is an autobiographical documentary that follows the current history of the AIDS epidemic along dual trajectories: the efforts of South Africa’s leading AIDS activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign, struggling to gain access to AIDS drugs and the daily routine of the videomaker, a veteran AIDS activist in the U.S. who has been living with AIDS for more than ten years. The videomaker moves through his day, attending to mundane errands, eating, taking pills, having conversations with friends (some of whom have diseases such as AIDS and Breast Cancer, and others of whom are healthy), as recurring memories of a recent trip to South Africa interrupt the routine. Habit presents a rigorous working-through of ideas concerning privilege, ethics, responsibility, futility, solidarity, hope, and struggle.

Fast Trip, Long Drop, 1993, 54min

Saturday, March 15th, 2025,
Doors at 6:30, screening at 7pm
Now Instant Image Hall, 939 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA
Followed by Q&A with Gregg Bordowitz
Link to free RSVP

In the spring of 1988, video-maker/activist Gregg Bordowitz tested HIV-antibody positive. He then quit drinking and taking drugs and came out to his parents as a gay man. This imaginative autobiographical documentary began as an inquiry into these events and the cultural climate surrounding them. While writing the film, a close friend was diagnosed with breast cancer and his grandparents were killed in a car accident. The cumulative impact of these events challenged his sense of identity, the way he understood his own diagnosis, and the relationships between Illness and history.

Fast Trip, Long Drop, 1993, video, 54min, still

Habit, 2001, video, 52min, still