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Format Blu-ray
Condition New
Label Vinegar Syndrome

Plus, in Ken Camp's AS THE WORLD BURNS: It’s the Reagan years… and all of the men in the neighborhood are mysteriously beginning to turn gay. As Robin’s terminally unemployed husband Lenny begins shifting his attention away from the job hunt and towards the local trade(smen), she finds herself having to hit the streets to bring home the bacon. Meanwhile, Lorraine’s husband Ben has mysteriously gone missing and Linnea just can’t seem to find anyone who’ll let her borrow a cup of detergent. And what role does the Gay Neighbor play in all of this?

Commissioned by videomaker John Dorr for EZTV’s inaugural screenings at the West Hollywood Community Center in 1982, AS THE WORLD BURNS is an experimental three-part gay soap opera that was made using early consumer video equipment for the low cost of just $75.88 (the 88 cents were for the special effects). A wickedly funny satire on the narrative and aesthetic conventions of soaps, the banality of mainstream gay culture, and America’s rightward shift at the turn of the 80s, AS THE WORLD BURNS is also perhaps the very first piece of media to explicitly reference the the nascent AIDS epidemic.

directed by: Ken Camp
starring: Leonard Lumpkin, Curtis Hill, Wes Christiansen, James Robert Baker, Glen Meadmore
1981-1984 / 120 min (combined) / 1.33:1 / English DTS-HD MA 2.0

Additional info:

  • Region Free Blu-ray
  • New digital transfers of HIGHWAY HYPNOSIS and AS THE WORLD BURNS from their original 3/4”, Beta, and VHS masters
  • New restorations of THE SECRET LIFE OF PATTY HEARST (1976) and SHOCK VIDEO (1985) from their Super 8 camera reversals
  • Audio commentaries with videomaker Ken Camp
  • Outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage
  • Booklet with writing by queer film and video historian KJ Shepherd
  • English SDH subtitles

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