- Home
- About
- Alexandra Juhasz VHS Collection
- Sister Sites
- Archive of Past Courses
Browse Items (192 total)
- Collection: Alexandra Juhasz AIDS Activism VHS Collection
Sort by:
(In)visible Women
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." Ellen Spiro is a friend and fellow AIDS video activist videomaker and documentarian. She has had a stellar career as a documentarian making AIDS activist videos and…
A Conversation with Magic, Nickelodeon
Acquired for teaching and research about AIDS media, for my dissertation and then my book AIDS TV.Basketball star Magic Johnson speaks to kids about living with AIDS in this Nickelodeon News Special Edition.
A Crack in the Tube
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this collection at Pitzer College over many years and in a variety of Media Studies classes from Feminist Documentary to Video Art. It's an imprtant and large compliation documenting the history of feminist…
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…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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…
AIDS is About Secrets
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV."
AIDS Quarterly, A Death in the Family continued; Bravo 1-4 (2nd of 2)
Video recording from television of a PBS magazine-style series broadcast quarterly over many years; the second of two tapes.
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.
Alex's opening remarks for HOLDING PATTERNS' closing screening
AN ARMY OF LOVERS CANNOT FAIL curated by Elizabeth Eriole, December 2, 2025
American High (Episodes. 1 & 2)
Dub for teaching given to me by I'm not sure by who. I was interested in how video was opening out into more honest stories of young people's lives. It worked well for teaching because it was raw.
Anatomy of a Springroll
gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
Angel in the Attic
A gift from the filmmaker. I received tapes like this over the years to teach, or write about, or program because of my research interests.
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…
Art for Teachers of Children
Gift from filmmaker. I knew Jennifer in the early 90s and taught this important film at that time. The interaction between experimental filmmaking and documentary in her work is compelling.
Bad Bosses Go to Hell
A short comedic film directed by my friend and longtime collaborator, Erin Cramer who I met at the Whitney ISP. I produced this film with Killer Films. We are currently working together on a docufiction, written and directed by Erin that I am…
Ballot Measure 9
Gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.
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…
Bike Boy
Dub for teaching bought at a swap meet. The Warhol foundation controls access to all his films, so obviously, this was and is a dub used for teaching and research.
Black or White; Color Adjustments
Dub for teaching. Marlon's work was critical for my teaching on race and racism in media. In those days, I also loved to teach Black or White by Michael Jackson ... when it first came out. Both works made arguments about the mutability of race.…
Black Panther
Dub used for teaching
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.
Breaking the Bank
Gift from filmmaker. For research and teaching.
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…
Children Will Listen
Gift from filmmaker. I believe I acquired many of Charlene's films when I wrote an evaluation letter for her. I also knew her from Philly when I was making "The Watermelon Woman." She acted in some of the photos for Cheryl Dunye and Zoe Leonard's Fae…
Clips
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." I wrote about this video again as part of my collaboration with Theodore Kerr as we revisit early AIDS video to think about what it can tell us about mediamaking and…
Come Back, Africa [mislabeled]
Gift from fellow professor for teaching that I apparently taped over and used to hold a draft of my video, Dear Gabe, as well as footage for that project. Sorry not to see this powerful classic when I went to digitize the tape!
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.
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…
Dear Gabe
A personal documentary made about myself and my closest friends from college and the decisions and choices we had as queer and straight feminists as we entered our thirties and produced families of our own.
Death in Venice, CA.
Gift from filmmaker. I collaborate often with Todd and his husband, David, prolific filmmakers, writers, directors and producers. P. David and I were early producers on Cheryl Dunye's HBO film, Stranger Inside.
Demon Lover
A gift from the filmmaker.
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,…
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…
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…
Elspeth Kydd Vol. 3 (Short Works): Drag in for Votes; Exile's Complex; Why We Fight; Faces; Drag Queen Blues; Rituals and White Lies; and also Suburbs of Eden
Gift from filmmaker. Elspeth was a friend and colleague who I met through activist AIDS video, and documentary studies. She died tragically in her 40s.Suburbs of Eden by Cecelia Condit was also recorded on this tape.
Everyday Echo Street and Dressing Up
Gift from filmmaker. I worked with Susan on Women of Vision. She gave me these dubs to use as B-roll for my documentary. I am a fan of her work. She began making video with the LA Women's Building and has continued, creating an impressive oeuvre of…
Everything in Between
Gift from filmmaker. Fatimah is a friend and colleage and like me, a hyphonate PhD/filmmaker. We shared work and screened each others' films on many occasions.
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!
Fact is Stranger than Fiction
Purchased for teaching. I taught often with this invaluable several-boxed collection from Video Databank which is currently unavailable.
Fakin’ Da Funk
Dub of a video shared with me for teaching and research at Pitzer College by an unknown colleague.
Family Project: House of a Father
Gift from a Korean graduate student who worked with me on activist and feminist documentary in the 2000s.
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…
Father
Hugarian film; a gift from my hungarian Father, Joseph Juhasz.
Fighting for Our Lives: Women and AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.