Are We Going Backwards? (1989) - David Tuff
Channel: AIDS Activist History Project
Date: 2022-07-02

An experimental documentary by David Tuff (1958-1992) covering the British Columbia Social Credit Party’s passage of Bill 34, a piece of legislation that legalized the quarantine and internment of people with HIV/AIDS. A comparison is made to the internment of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia during World War II. Based on David Tuff’s video installation at Emily Carr in 1988. Features footage from a Committee for Responsible Health Legislation (CRHL) demonstration in Vancouver.