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The Second Epidemic
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Gifted for me for research on my doctoral dissertation on AIDS activist video by friends and fellow activists Amber Hollibaugh and Alisa Lebow.An informative documentary on…
Shulie
Gift from filmmaker. Elisabeth is a friend, colleague, and queer feminist experimental compatriot. She wrote about this film for the book I co-edited with Jesse Lerner, "F is For Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing" (University of Minnesota…
Lucille
Gift from filmmaker. Enid was a frequent collaborator as an editor and artist, and one of my favorite video artists of the 1990s. She edited my documentaries, Dear Gabe and Video Remains. She continues making art that links to the sciences focusing…
Queer Youth Nation: Parts 1 and 2
Gift from filmmaker. Gina taught with me for years at Pitzer College. I love teaching from this video compilation by and about Latina girls who were educated at REACH LA, which "increases self-sustainability by encouraging creative expression,…
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…
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…
DIVA TV Dub: (1-4)
Compilation tape acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, made a critical body of AIDS activist video. James Wentzy took over this project and made hundreds…
Vida
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. My friend and colleague and fellow AIDS video activist, Tom Kalin, worked as a producer on the films made by AIDS Films. I write about him and them in an early essay on AIDS…
Seriously Fresh
For research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. My friend and colleague and fellow AIDS video activist, Tom Kalin, worked as a producer on the films made by AIDS Films. I write about him and them in an early essay on AIDS video,…
Police Tapes; Video in the Villages; Video Cannibalism
Compilation tape of documentary and ethnographic film for teaching. The Police Tapes is a 1977 documentary about a New York City police precinct in the South Bronx. Video in the Villages organizes indigenous workshops in training and production.…
A Minor Altercation; Politics of Intimacy; and some Star Trek
Dub for teaching. Amazing resource about consciousness-raising and its relation to video. Powerful to this day in its forthright conversation about women's sexuality. Minor Altercation is also on this tape. One of the first narrative films directed…
The Potluck and The Passion; The Body Beautiful
Gift from filmmaker. Cheryl is a long-time collaborator (we made The Watermelon Woman together). I teach her videos often. She is my ex-partner. Cheryl's work is formative in her documentary/fiction bleed. I taped Body Beautiful onto this tape that…
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…
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…
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.
Prostitutes, Risk, and AIDS
Made with Jean Carlomusto for the Gay Men's Health Crisis' "Living with AIDS" show, a weekly cable show on public access. Starring collaborator Carol Leigh. Carol was a subject of my book and documentary, Women of Vision. More of her work is…
RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison; and early cut of Naming Prairie [Juhasz Compilation]
I produced this collaboratively made abolitionist video with a team of artists working in pairs. I wrote about this project in a piece about collaboration, feminist video, and "victim documentaries," No Woman is an Object. The tape also holds an…
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…
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
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…
Pills Profits Protest: Chronicle of the Global AIDS Movement [trailer]
This documentary examines critical junctures in the battle for access to HIV treatment as the poorest and most marginalized individuals confront larger powers, including governments, corporate bodies and a multinational drug industry that is…
Resisting Paradise
Gift from filmmaker. Barbara was a friend and colleague, inspiration and radical. A lesbian experimental filmmaker, teacher, and activist, she made work for decades, as queer, lesbian, feminist, and AIDS activism transformed. She was a subject of my…
Perceptual Landscapes: Films of Barbara Hammer, Volume 3
Gift from filmmaker. Barbara is a friend and colleage. She was one of the subjects of my book and documentary on feminist film history, Women of Vision. Over a long career in filmmaking, Barbara explored many styles and theories that would allow her…
In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff and Number Our Days
I taught these films often in feminist documentary as well as in a course on ethnographic film and autobiography. Barbara Myerhoff's self-reflexive, community-situated documentary-making has long been a model for me. I learned about her work from my…
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…
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…
Sex Workers Take Back the Night
I think this tape was referenced by my students who were working with Carol Leigh, and some of it is in the composite tape she gave me years before, digitized and used in this collection. The student work in collaboration with Carol Leigh and other…
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).
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…
She Don't Fade/The Ride Pt. 1/ Absolutely Fabulous + OJ Chase
This is a crazy montage of a VHS tape. I seemed to have taped "The Ride Part 1" over the tail end of a bad dub of Cheryl Dunye's "She Don't Fade." I taught this series for many years as a strong representation of the possibilities for…
Red Red Red
Red Red Red is a personal and political film about a law in Iowa that severely limits the social liberties of people with HIV. Eclectic in the presentation of its rhetoric, the film also considers broader questions like the contemporary state of…
Showdown in Seattle: 5 Days that Shook the WTO
Gift from filmmaker. Joan is a fellow activist from LA. The box says "FABULOUS FORESTS: Cameroon/Indonesia Part One" on the top. My guess is that she recorded over the original tape to give me this dub. When I digitized it at the Brooklyn College…
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.
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.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels, Pts. 1 and 2
Dub of VHS filmed from 16mm print projected on a wall. I taught this film frequently in feminist film classes. It never stops giving: ideas about watching, time, and female's agency as actor, director, viewer, and "homemaker."
In Search of Our Fathers
Gift from filmmaker; I met him working on an activist media project on diversity and identity in the 1990s called "Isms" I do believe.
It is What it Is
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made for GMHC's Living with AIDS show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto by Gregg Bordowitz with a collective of queer of color youth.
Thinking About Death
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV, made for GMHC Living with AIDS Show, under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto and directed by Gregg Bordowitz.
Media Killa; The Perfect Leader
dub used only for teaching
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…
Father
Hugarian film; a gift from my hungarian Father, Joseph Juhasz.
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,…
Target Bush
Gift from filmmaker for my doctoral research. DIVA TV made great, funny, powerful, urgent films as a video collective within ACT UP. This is from AIDS Community Telelvision, run by James Wentzy. A critical player in the AIDS activist video ecosystem,…
Sex in an Epidemic
In "Sex in an Epidemic," Jean Carlomusto, a doyenne of AIDS activist video, creates a haunting and elegiac history of US safer sex (video) activism and education. Taking up (and using clips from) Carlomusto’s earliest activist work for GMHC’s…
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…
Diaries, notes, and sketches
Intoxicating, moving, brilliant entre into bohemain NY by one of experimental cinema's giants. I love a diary film; the East Village; this film's pacing and dreamy focus; its slowness. I watched part of the film on 16mm one day with Minohla Dargis,…
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…
Voting in the District: Fine Cut
Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote a letter of evaulation for her as a fellow academic. I also knew her socially from Philly when I was making The Watermelon Woman with Cheryl Dunye.Made for Voting in…
The Politics of Fur
Gift from filmmaker, for research and teaching.
Lavender Limelight; The Couple in The Cage; (The) Perfect Film
Compilation of dubs for teaching. Lavender Limelight is a documentary about queer film history. The Couple in a Cage is by Coco Fusco, a friend and colleague who supported me in the beginning of my career by helping me get a large grant for We Care…