TGC Presents:
Zero Patience (1993)

TBC 2024

This screening will take place later in 2024. Details TBA.

Bonus! The session will start with a screening of Trevor Anderson’s short film, Docking (2019).

About the Film

Part-experimental, part-political musical comedy, Zero Patience challenges the urban legend that one man, a Canadian flight attendant, was responsible for bringing AIDS to North America. The film features an immortal taxidermist, the ghost of ‘Patient Zero’ and the bizarre but catchy musical numbers ‘Pop-a-Boner’, ‘Contagious’ and ‘Butthole Duet’.

”Slyly inverting popular wisdom, the movie offers a sassy commentary on the epidemic of blame. The plot follows the fortunes of notorious Victorian explorer and sexologist Sir Richard Burton as he works to assemble a multi-media museum display on the origin of AIDS. His plans are thwarted when he runs into Zero, back from the dead and determined to clear his name. The film offers a timely reminder that AIDS movies needn't be all Kodak moments and earnest posturing. Matching a flagrant disregard for sentimental pieties with a passion for undermining generic conventions, Greyson has produced a film which engages your mind as much as your heart, and leaves you laughing.” | Time Out

100 mins

Director & Screenwriter | John Greyson