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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.  

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…

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…

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…

Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

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,…

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.

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…