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A WAVE Taster
Made as part of the WAVE project: clips from the various excercises we did to learn how to make video, and learn more about AIDS and each other. I write about the process of making our work together, in an AIDS support group at the Brooklyn AIDS…
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP
This tape was most likely given to me by its makers Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman, most likely when they came to Pitzer College, where I was teaching at the time, to screen it. I have collaborated with them often, and they have collaborated together…
AIDS in the Barrio
Acquired for Alexandra Juhasz's doctoral dissertation, which then became her book entitled "AIDS TV." Although initially digitized for Alex's Fall 2018 VHS Archives class, her Spring 2020 VHS Archives class has found particular interest in this…
Are You With Me?
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by AIDS Films as part of a significant early effort to get high-production films about AIDS and minority…
Bebashi/Amfar Dub; Keep Your Laws off My Body
This is composite tape of 2 videos acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. It was digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. I like that these projects are aligned on one tape. Both mix the private and the…
Caring Sequences [Compilation]
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friend and colleague, Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show. I continued to work with Juanita, and included her in the Day With(out)…
Carol Leigh: Music Videos, Whores and Healers, Take Back the Night
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. This tape was digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2020 and they made a great final project, GROUP SEX (collaborating with Carol and other activists) on resisting…
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. One of the central pieces of AIDS activist video that forefronts women's activism with a strong critique of media…
Hard to Get: AIDS in the Workplace
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by my friend and collaborator, Alisa Lebow for the New York Anti-Discrimination AIDS Task Force where she worked…
Homosexuality: One Child's Point of View
Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski was a community video artist and activist. She uses inexpensive camcorder video technology to respond to the needs of those who matter to her. Jahanara Zzaman is her daughter. In her work at GMHC in New York City,…
How to Have a Sex Party
Acquired for research for my doctoral dissertation, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.Students since have really loved this piece given its overt queer and lesbian sexuality. We have had a hard time tracking down…
Like a Prayer
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Made by DIVA TV and starring Ray Navarro as Jesus.
Loose Ends, Cartoon Le Mousse, Fever Dream 7, Kristallnacht
I taught these films for years. Amazing proto-feminist experimental film
Mildred Pearson: When You Love A Person
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.A portrait of a mother taking care of her son who has been diagnosed with AIDS. Voiceover interview recorded on May 19th, 1988 at the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force in honor of…
Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Features stellar safer sex education as activism and community building. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Cheryl and I worked with Ellen to revisit the…
PWA Power: Life After Diagnosis
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC for their Living with AIDS cable television show.
Safe Sex Slut [Compilation of videos by Scarlot Harlot]
Carol is a longtime collaborator and friend. She was a subject of my Women of Vision, and we included her in Compulsive Practice (2016).
Safer and Sexier: A College Students' Guide to Safer Sex
I made this video as an extracurricular activist project with students at Swarthmore College. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Its graphic sexual imagery, and de-coupling of sex and love, led to some protests by Christians, but…
Safer Sister; Reunion; (An)other Love Story; The Forgotten People: Latinas and AIDS Shadows
Composite reel of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Dubs of tapes I made to review. Not sure what the last one is.
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options was made within a public program for young mothers. Activist music videos were made with Alexandra Juhasz, Brian Goldfarb, and the youth group for young mothers trying to finish high school.The songs…
The Safer Sex Shorts
Made for activist safer sex education to diverse groups by GMHC's media department and led by Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz. Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.A series of erotic and explicit shorts…
Voices from the Front
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Made by my friends and compatriots in the AIDS activist video collective, Testing the Limits, many of who were in the Whitney ISP program before me. I learned so much…
WAVE: Self Portraits
Short videos made as part of the WAVE project which worked in an AIDS video collective to tell stories of urban women of color impacted by AIDS. The project is the subject of the final auto-ethnographic chapter of my disseration, AIDS TV. Digitized…
Women And AIDS
I made three tapes for the Gay Men's Health Crisis Media Department, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. This is one of the first videos made about…
Writing Desire
Gift from the filmmaker. We went to the Whitney Independent Studio together in the 1980s and I brought her to Pitzer in the early 2000s to show her work. I follow her current work on immigration and the environment.
Family Project: House of a Father
Gift from a Korean graduate student who worked with me on activist and feminist documentary in the 2000s.
Finding Your Way: A Guide to Your Case in Family Court
The first video I was paid to make in a summer internship during graduate school at the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice. I had very few skills, but they were happy with the video. It was edited at the foundational NYC community-video center, DCTV,…
Memories from the Department of Amnesia; Art of Memory
Two works of video art that I taught.
History and Memory: (for Akiko and Takashige); Scar; Smoke and Ghosts: Three Poems and more [Through the Lens 5 Compilation]
A film I taught with and still do because of Tajiri's amazing mix of documentary, fiction, history, art, and feminism. It always moves students to understand the necessity of experimental approaches to political history. It seems to be recorded from…
A Place of Rage; Illusions
Two films I taught with for years by African American woman filmmakers. Julie Dash went on to make the seminal Daughter of the Dust." "Illusions" is an early feminist short and always a great way to think about the place and exclusions of Black women…
Framing the Panthers; Counterterror: North of Ireland
Two great videos shared with me by my friend, the activist video artists, Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton. Note: From minute 06:11 to the end (31:16) the recording is corrupted. This offers the viewer the opportunity to listen to the audio (which…
Video Remains
An experimental video made from the real-time video that I shot in 1991 on his request, with my best friend, James Robert Lamb, as he was in the later stages of living with AIDS and discussing his legacy. For the documentary, I also interview fellow…
AIDS Quarterly: 1-4 (1 of 2)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Recorded from TV. Mainstream topical coverage in magazine format.
Playing it Safe (intro V. Bertinelli): Protections: What Every Woman Needs to Know
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." One of those mainstream productions that were not particularly helpful, thus inspiring AIDS activist video about and by women.
A Part of Me and Sacred Lies/Civil Truths
Works acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV" by friends and colleagues in the AIDS activist video movement. Sacred Lies/Civil Truths is by filmmakers Cyrille Phipps and Catherine Saalfield. The film is a…
Day Without Art 1992: “We Interrupt This Program”
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. From TV recording. A dense and exciting program of artists and activists airing on TV as part of Visual AIDS ongoing Day With(out) Art.From television show "The Eleventh Hour…
Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Simple Courage: An Historical Portrait in the Age of AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Silence=Death
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Something to Live For: The Allison Gertz Story; Uncle Ed on local News and some of Dallas [Compilation from TV]
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." These are examples of the sort of sensationalist reporting on mainstream TV that fueled our strategies for AIDS activist video recorded with a VCR from live…
Fast Trip, Long Drop
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Gregg is a friend and colleague and fellow AIDS activist videomaker whose work has been formative to my thinking and teaching. This work, what I undertood to be the first…
Compilation of Pitzer student videos and the beginning of Bad Bosses Go To Hell!
This tape seems to hold copies of short videos made in the 1990s by students at Pitzer College and the first part of a short narrative film that I produced for my friend and colleague, Erin Cramer, who I met in the Whitney ISP program.
Bodies, Birth & Babies: Teaching Health Foundations
I made this video for a paid gig for Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ, for the feminist Center for Family Life Education. Getting paid for the work on this video allowed me to go to Europe for the first time.
A New Tradition; Safer Sex Counseling; Condom Talk [compilation]
Three tapes made for paid gigs for the feminist Center for Family Life Education, a leader in youth education about sexuality. Quite recently, the project manager, Hillary Mushkin, a peer at the time of their production, has reentered my orbits, now…
A Test For The Nation: Women, Children, Families, AIDS
One of three documentaries I made for GMHC's "Living with AIDS" cable tv show. All three exhibit a sustained commitment to an "intersectional" approach to understanding and representing the AIDS crisis when considering the experiences of women. This…
Silverlake Life: The View From Here
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. I continue to teach and learn from this film, a compelling use of the home video camera, and self-reflexive gaze to understand AIDS, love, and death.
Who Do you Listen To? Sex in the Age of AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Excited, Angry, Active, Vocal (Women out Loud)
Made with a feminist activist video collective of my students at Swarthmore College. We were interested in what seems the perennial problem: why young women do not identify as "feminist" and why they should!
Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA [Compilation]
Compilation of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV." DIVA TV, an activist colleactive working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video that complimented my own efforts, which were…
Naming Prairie
My work: a short video introducing the themes and families who would be the subject of my feature on feminist queer families, including my own, Dear Gabe. The short premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. It is about the Jewish babynaming…