Day With(out) Art 2025: Meet Us Where We’re At

Join us for another Day With(out) Art featuring six commissioned videos from all over the world that reveal the complexity of drug use, presented by the student group Cinéseries. These videos document the visible world of drugs—a harm reduction program in a Berlin park, a night out during Rio’s Carnival—while others reveal private, often hidden spaces where safety is found—bedrooms, underground clinics, and moments of connection between lovers.

Meet Us Where We’re At speaks not only to the variety of physical locations where contemporary harm reduction is practiced but also to a broader shift of centering drug users as authors of their own experiences. Rooted in the philosophy of meeting people at their personal reality without judgment, the program affirms the full context of drug use—its pleasures, its risks, and its role in how people survive, care, and connect.

Harm reduction has long been central to the AIDS movement through practices like needle exchange and safe injection sites, and people who use drugs have been affected by HIV since the earliest days of the epidemic. This program brings their perspectives to the forefront, amplifying the voices of drug users as storytellers, cultural producers, and essential participants in the global response to HIV. (program approx. 60 mins., DCP)

The program features newly commissioned short videos by artists working across the world:

Kenneth Idongesit Usoro (Nigeria)
Hoàng Thái Anh (Vietnam)
Gustavo Vinagre and Vinicius Couto (Brazil/Portugal)
Camilo Tapia Flores (Chile/Brazil)
Camila Flores-Fernández (Peru/Germany)
José Luis Cortés (Puerto Rico)

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Images courtesy of Visual AIDS.