Deconstructs the representation of AIDS in the popular media where distortion and misrepresentation amount to a "snow job" promoting increased homophobia, sexual discrimination and repression of gays.
Editing
Hammer's cut-and-paste assault on broadcast respectability.
Direction
Experimental animation weaponized as documentary activism.
Director
Barbara Hammer
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Hammer made this during the Reagan administration's infamous AIDS silence, when the CDC had identified the syndrome five years prior but the president hadn't publicly spoken its name.
The title references both 'snow' as deception and the 'snow job' of white heterosexual media panic obscuring actual queer suffering and community care.
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