The Second Epidemic
Writing Desire
woman filmmaker, experimental, documentary, feminist, sexuality
<span>Gift from the filmmaker. We went to the Whitney Indepdenent 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.<br /></span>
Ursula Biemann
2000
Video Essay
Like a Prayer
AIDS, activist video, documentary, collective
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.<br /><br /><span><br /><br /></span>
DIVA TV
1991
English
Hard to Get: AIDS in the Workplace
AIDS activist, video, documentary, woman filmmaker
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="With%20the%20December%2010th,%201989%20demonstration%20by%20ACT%20UP%20and%20WHAM!%20(Women's%20Health%20Action%20and%20Mobilization)%20at%20St.%20Patrick's%20Cathedral%20as%20its%20focus,%20Like%20a%20Prayer%20is%20more%20than%20a%20simple%20documentation%20of%20that%20event.%20This%20show%20explores%20the%20many%20issues%20that%20were%20cause%20for%20the%20action%20-%20as%20well%20as%20those%20resulting%20from%20it%20-%20while%20charting%20the%20course%20of%20events%20both%20inside%20and%20outside%20the%20church.%20Like%20a%20Prayer%20is%20composed%20of%20several%20sections%20including%20an%20analysis%20of%20the%20demonstration%20as%20it%20was%20portrayed%20in%20the%20mainstream%20media%20and%20reactions%20of%20Catholics%20who%20participated.%20Like%20a%20Prayer%20is%20a%20show%20of%20force%20and%20pride;%20a%20challenge%20to%20the%20Church%20and%20its%20policy%20on%20AIDS%20and%20reproductive%20rights.%20Produced%20by%20DIVA-TV%20in%20collaboration%20with%20WHAM!%20%20Features%20cameo%20of%20Ray%20Navarro%20as%20Jesus." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." 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 with Amber Hollibaugh and others. They made many great video there which I wrote about in my Cineaste piece: <a href="https://actupny.org/diva/cineaste.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">So Many Alternatives.</a></span>
Alisa Lebow
1990
New York Anti-Discrimination Task Force
Voices from the Front
AIDS, activist video, documentary, collective, woman filmmaker, feminist
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." 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.</span><br /><span><br /></span>
Testing the Limits
Sandra Elgear
Robyn Hutt
David Meieran
San Francisco, CA: Frameline
1992
Safer Sister; Reunion; (An)other Love Story; The Forgotten People: Latinas and AIDS Shadows
AIDS, women filmmakers, community based video, African American, feminist
Composite reel of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Dubs of tapes I made to review. Not sure what the last one is.
1992; 1993; 1993
RELEASED: Five Short Videos about Women and Prison
woman filmmaker, documentary, radical, activist. Collective
A project I produced with other filmmakers and activists in a collective focusing on the challenges and possibilities of representation of abolition, women, and prison.
Alexandra Juhasz
2001; 2001
Carol Leigh and Duran Ruiz, Irwin Swirnoff and Cheryl Dunye, Tamika Miller and Syvain White, Tracy Mostovoy, Joseph Saito, Enid Baxter Blader, narrated by Angela Davis
Doctors, Liars, and Women: AIDS Activists Say No To Cosmo
AIDS, activist video, documentary, woman filmmaker,
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.<br /><br /><span>"This spectacular David and Goliath story unfolds on the streets of New York, as the first action of the Women’s Committee in ACT UP takes on </span><em>Cosmopolitan</em><span> magazine. In January of 1988 </span><em>Cosmo</em><span> published a dangerously misleading article on the transmission of AIDS for women. Written by psychiatrist Robert E. Gould, the article claimed that, “There is almost no danger of contracting AIDS through ordinary sexual [heterosexual] intercourse.” Jean Carlomusto documents the women who stood up to the mammoth magazine conglomerate and questioned Dr. Gould and his qualifications with perseverance, dedication, and bravery." <a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/6364" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">(MoMA)</a></span>
1988
A WAVE Taster
AIDS, activist video, African American, family, woman filmmaker
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1990
PWA Power
AIDS, activist video, documentary, PWAs
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC.
1988
Testing the Limits Part 1 and 2
AIDS, activist video, documentary, collective
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Made by my friend, colleagues, and fellow AIDS video activists in this important collective.
1987
Bebashi/Amfar Dub, blank, Final Decision, Grandma's Legacy; Keep Your Laws off My Body
AIDS, activist video, documentary, woman filmmaker, lesbian
Composite tape of videos acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Ted Kerr and I write extesnively about the Bebashi tape for our book, We Are Having this Conversation Now: The Times of AIDS Cultural Production (Duke: 2022).
1990
Mildred Pearson: When You Love A Person
AIDS, activist video, African American, family, woman filmmaker
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.<br /><br /><span>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 “AIDS Information Day.”</span>
1988
Caring Sequences
AIDS, activist video, African American, family
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Made by my friend and colleague, Juanita Mohammed Sczepanski for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show. I continue to work with Juanita, and recently included her in <a href="https://vimeo.com/192798505">Compulsive Practice</a>. She was interviewed for my 2001 book <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/women-of-vision">Women of Vision</a> and later (2019) participated, with her grandaughter, Pharah, in the <a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/5/4">Feminsit Media Histories</a> revisit "Informed Hostorical Reveries," co-edited with Angela Agauyo. Juanita is a community-based AIDS video activist.</span>
1992
Self Protection: Teen Mothers Expand their Options
AIDS, activist video, safer sex, sexuality, youth, African American
<span>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.</span><br /><span>The songs were written and sung by the mothers themselves.<br /><br />Directed and Edited by Alexandra Juhasz, Conceived of and Produced by Sara Safford, Sponsored by The Brooklyn Paranatal Network, Inc, Education and Outreach Program in cooperation with Expanding Options for Teen Mothers at NYC Technical College, CUNY<br /><br />Transferred by XFR Collective from VHS on 5/24/2017<br /></span>
1989
Carol Leigh: Music Videos, Whores and Healers, Take Back the Night
AIDS, activist video, woman filmaker, sesxuality, prostitution, safer sex
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. Carol Leigh is a longtime collaborator and friend. We worked together on <a href="https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/841" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">RELEASED: 5 Short Videos about Women and Prison</a>. I included her in <a href="https://www.artforum.com/video/compulsive-practice-by-visual-aids-65073" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Compulsive Practice</a> for Visual AIDS, Day With(out) Art in 2016.
WAVE: Self Portraits
AIDS, women fimmakers, community based video, African American, feminist
Short videos made as part of the WAVE project <span>which worked in an AIDS video collective to tell stories of urban women of color impacted by AIDS</span>. The project is the subject of the final auto-ethnographic chapter of my disseration, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018.
1990
Safer and Sexier: A College Students' Guide to Safer Sex
AIDS, activist video, collective, safer sex, sexuality, youth
I made this video as an extracurricular activist project with students at Swarthmore College. Digitized for my VHS Archives class, Fall 2018. It's graphic sexual imagery, and de-coupling of sex and love, led to some protests by Christians, but otherwise it enjoyed a healthy self-distribution for many years to AIDS college educators across the US, its inteded use.
1991
The Safer Sex Shorts
AIDS, activist video, sefer sex, sexuality, gay and lesbian
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, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV.</a>
1989
Party Safe with DiAna and Bambi
AIDS, activist video, documentary, woman filmmaker, lesbian, sexuality
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." 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 work of Diana and Bambi for our short, "<a href="https://vimeo.com/245608251" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">DiAna's Hair Ego Remix</a>," commissioned by Visual AIDS for Day without Art 2017.</span>
1992
Loose Ends, Cartoon Le Mousse, Fever Dream 7, Kristallnacht
woman filmmaker, experimental
I taught these films for years. Amazing proto-feminist experimental film
1979
Finding Your Way: A Guide to Your Case in Family Court
activist video, community based video
The first video I was paid to make in a summer internship during graduate school at the 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, <a href="http://www.dctvny.org/">DCTV</a>, Downtown Community Television, and was played in waiting rooms in detention centers to explain to young people what would happen to them in family court, as well as their rights in this complex system.
Memories from the Department of Amnesia; Art of Memory
video art, woman filmmaker, experimental, Asian-American
Two works of video art that I taught.
1989; 1987
History and Memory
woman filmmaker, documentary, history, experimental
A film I taught with and still do because of Tajima's amazing mix of documentary, fiction, history, art, and feminism.
1991
Compilation: "A Place of Rage"; "Illusions"
Woman Filmmaker, Documentary, Radical, Activism, African-American, Lesbian
<span>Two films I taught with for years by African American woman filmmakers. Julie Dash went on to make Daughter of the Dust. A Place of Rage is a celebration of African American women.</span>
Pratibha Parmar
Julie Dash
1991
1983
Framing the Panthers; Counterterror
woman filmmaker, documentary, radical, activist
Two great videos shared with me by my friend, the activist video artists, Annie Goldson and Chris Bratton.
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1990
VHS
Documentary
Video Remains
AIDS, PWAs, experimental video, activist video, documentary, woman filmmaker
An experimental video made from the real-time video that I shot with my best friend, James Robert Lamb, as he was dying from AIDS in 1991.
AIDS Quarterly: 1-4
AIDS, television
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." Recorded from TV. Mainstream topical coverage. </span>
1989
Playing it Safe (intro V. Bertinelli): Protections: What Every Woman Needs to Know
AIDS, television
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." One of those mainstream productions that were not partiuclarly helpful, inspiring AIDS activist video about and by women.</span>
1992
Compilation: A Part of Me; Sacred Lies/Civil Truths
AIDS, PWA, Activism, Documentary, Woman Filmmaker, Latin/X
<span>Compilation of works acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>" by friends and colleagues in the AIDS activist video movement. A Part of Me is a portrait of for GMHC's Living with AIDS Show, 1993. Featuring Alida "Lilly" Gonzalez. Sacred Lies/Civil Truths is by filmmakers Cyrille Phipps and Catherine Saalfield. The film is a document of the religious right's blatant and hateful attacks against the lesbian and gay community. <br /></span>
Juanita Mohammed Sczapanski
Alisa Lebow
Catherine Saalfield
Suzanne Wright
Cyrille Phipps
1993
Compilation from TV: Day Without Art 1992; “We Interrupt This Program”
AIDS, activist video, television
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. From TV recording.
1992
Positive
AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
1990
Simple Courage
AIDS, PWA, documentary
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV.</a>
1992
Silence=Death
AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
1990
Compilation from TV: The Allison Gertz Story & Uncle Ed. News
AIDS
Televsion
Women
Aids
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." These are examples of the sort of sensationalist reporting on mainstream TV that fueled our strategies for AIDS activist video.</span>
1992
VHS
Drama
News
AIDS: Fast Trip, Long Drop
AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. 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 "meta-AIDS doc," helped me to think about the various methods and liabilities of documentary strategies in relation to AIDS activism.
1993
Bad Bosses Go To Hell
I produced this short narrative film for my friend and colleague, Erin Cramer, who I met in the Whitney ISP program.<br /><br />"Bad Bosses" begins at 00:09:36.
Erin Cramer
Killer Films
1997
Amy Sedaris
Becky Ann Baker
David Rakoff
VHS
Short film
Bodies, Birth & Babies: TEACHING HEALTHY FOUNDATIONS
I made this video for a paid gig for Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ, <span>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.</span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Planned Parenthood, Bergen County, NJ.
1992
Hillary Mushkin
Compilation: A New Tradition; Safer Sex Counseling and Condom Talk
AIDS, Sex Education, Documentary, Women Filmmakers
<span>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, <a href="http://www.hillarymushkin.com/">Hillary Mushkin</a>, a peer at the time of their production, has reentered my orbits, now through her important work in public health.<br /></span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Center for Family Life Education
1988
Tom Burr
Debra Sarlin
R. Sabitable
English
Educational
HIV TV
Safer sex and self-empowerment advise by PWAs making video in a support-group at Woodhull Hospital, Brooklyn.
My second attempt at an AIDS video support group, sponsored by the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, and working with Sharon Penceal at an AIDS support group at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. I write about the strengths and failures of this video in <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
HIV Support Group
1990
Sharon Penceal
A Test For The Nation: Women, Children, Families, AIDS
Places AIDS into framework of reproductive rights and women’s health care.
<span>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.</span>
Alexandra Juhasz
Produced for G.M.H.C.’s “Living With AIDS” cable show.
1988
VHS
Documentary
Silverlake Life: The View From Here
documentary, gay, AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. 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.
Peter Friedman and Tom Joslin.
POV, PBS
1993
Who Do you Listen To? Sex in the Age of AIDS
AIDS, television, religious
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
Excited, Angry, Active, Vocal (Women out Loud)
feminist, consciousness raising, documentary, woman filmmaker, sexuality, collective
<span>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!</span>
1992
Focus on Women; Words to Live By; Seize Control of the FDA
AIDS, activist video, revolutionary, collective
<span>Compilation of tapes acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." 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 more community based. Many of the people represented in this collection were also in that collective: Jean Carlomusto, Ellen Spiro, Greg Bordowitz, and more. There is also a tape by my longtime collaborator and friend Juanita Mohammed Sczepanski on this compilation.</span>
1988
Naming Prairie
woman filmmaker, queer, feminist, family, Jewish
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 ceremony for Prairie, the daugher of my friend Hali and Margie.
2002
Hope for A New Tomorrow: Families with AIDS, The Third Decade
AIDS, PWAs, activist video
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.</span>
2001
Work Your Body: Options for People Who are HIV-Positive
AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>. Made for GMHC under the supportive leadership of Jean Carlomusto. A great deal of important AIDS activist and educational video work was done there. Gregg Bordowitz, Alisa Leboa, and Juanita Mohammed Sczepanski also made AIDS activist video at the A/V department. <span>Gregg Bordowitz went on to be a central voice in the history of AIDS activism and art whose body of AIDS work was shown in 2021 at MoMA's PS1: <a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5207">I Wanna Be Well</a>.<br /></span>
1988
Fighting for Our Lives
AIDS, PWA, activist video, documentary
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, <a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>.
1990
Viva Eu (Long Live Me)
AIDS, Latin/x, woman filmmaker, safe sex
<span>Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "<a href="http://alexandrajuhasz.com/books/aids-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AIDS TV</a>." This was an important intervention at the time bringing a Latina voice and perspective to American AIDS video activism.</span>