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... Life: The View from Here (dir. Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman; 1993) is a home movie that documents the one rite of passage that home movies almost never capture: death. But Silverlake Life’s situated and located “view from here” (a subtitle that implicitly rejects...

... of the body’s painful and messy excretions under stress from AIDS in the documentary work of Peter Friedman and Tom Joslin (1993); and in the impassioned descriptions of piss drinking and cum eating in the journals of Gary Fisher (1996), queer artists, filmmakers, and writers deployed the digestive poli...

..., United States; 1991), Silverlake Life: The View from Here (Tom Joslin and Peter Friedman, United States; 1993), Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (Deborah Hoffmann, United States; 1994), The Devil Never Sleeps (Lourdes Portillo, Mexico; 1996), That’s My Face/É...