In 1990, I began doing research to make a video that would focus on women and HIV in Montréal, and in 1991, I co-directed Les autres with Petunia Alves. By the late 1980s, I saw several examples of what I began to think of as the New York City AIDS Activist Tapes in gay and lesbian film festivals. I studied those tapes. They exerted a huge influence on me. One of those videos w...