SILVERLAKE LIFE: THE VIEW FROM HERE is a profoundly moving video diary of a couple living with AIDS. It combines a tender love story with an uncompromising look at the brutality of the disease.
Tom Joslin and Mark Massi lived together for 22 years. When Massi developed full-blown AIDS in 1989, Joslin, a documentary filmmaker and professor at the University of Southern California, set out to document his lover's illness in a video diary. When Joslin also became sick, the diary expanded
to record the inexorably fading lives of both men. Joslin failed faster and Massi took up the filming through Joslin's death in 1990. Massi died six months later, leaving 40 hours...
Released:
1994
Rated:
NR
Length:
99 mins