ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in The Lucky One, jointly made by He Xiaopei and Zhang Xi. The 2011 documentary The Lucky One follows the life of a woman, Zhang Xi by name, in her last days of living with HIV/AIDS. Knowing that she did not have long to live and wishing to do something useful for the HIV-positive community, Zhang accepted filmmaker and non-governmental organisation worker He Xiaopei’s suggestion to document the last days of her own life with a digital voice recorder and a video camera. In recent years, the development industry has increasingly used a participatory approach, that is, involving ordinary people in development projects, to get its messages across. Participatory video is one of the most popular methods in participatory communication. Media and communication technologies such as photography, camera, and geographic information system are widely used in participatory communication.
