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Two minds?

- What do residents of Trump’s ancestral village in Germany think of him? Not so nice, LATimes.com, March 21, 2016.

3. The first scenes in Remembering the Man – a new documentary that explores the 16-year romance between writer and activist Timothy Conigrave and his lover John Caleo – feature Conigrave himself as the narrator.

Having died in October 1994, shortly after completing his memoir Holding the Man, Conigrave could never have known that what he wrote would go on to become one of Australia’s most beloved non-fiction books. Nor could he have known he would one day be posthumously narrating a moving account of their relationship and the forces he and Caleo battled against, including homophobia, bigotry and the virus that eventually struck them both down.

In 1993, when Aids was sweeping Australia and no effective treatment existed, an oral project was created by the National Library of Australia to preserve the stories of Aids victims. More than two decades later Conigrave’s decision to take part allows audiences to watch his story narrated in part by his own voice.

For film-makers Nickolas Bird and Eleanor Sharpe, the directors of Remembering the Man, the library initiative was a major discovery. Until that point Sharpe had been in two minds about making the film but, says Bird, “When we found that audio interview Eleanor said, ‘Ah, we have a film.’ That was the moment.

“We met with a couple of people and they said, ‘You just have to use his voice, this is remarkable.’ But it also created problems because we didn’t have visuals for it … it was like ugh, how are we going to do that?”