All American boy & punk rock poet Drew Blood was fighting to survive AIDS in Riverside, California in the 1990s.

This film is animated solely with cuttings from Drew's expansive archive of self published poetry zines from 1980 to his death in 1996.

Bye & Love Drew Blood
was featured alongside Donnie Rose at the 119th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference at UCLA

Archival collage  / Super 8mm film



Completed in the Community Arts Partnership animation program



Development material