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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.
Tags: 1991, activist video, AIDS, collective, DIVA, documentary, Like a Prayer
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…
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.
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…
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…
Tags: 1990, A WAVE Taster, activist video, African American, AIDS, family, WAVE, woman filmmaker
PWA Power: Life After Diagnosis
Made by my friends and colleagues at GMHC for their Living with AIDS cable television show.
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tags: 1989, activist video, AIDS, gay and lesbian, GMHC, sefer sex, sexuality, The Safer Sex Shorts
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…
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.
Tags: 1989, AIDS, AIDS Quarterly: 1-4, television, WGBH Boston
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.
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.
Tags: 1990, activist video, AIDS, documentary, Positive, PWA, Rosa von Praunheim
Simple Courage: An Historical Portrait in the Age of AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1992, AIDS, documentary, PWA, Simple Courage, Stephanie Castillo
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…
Tags: 1993, activist video, AIDS, AIDS: Fast Trip, documentary, Gregg Bordowitz, Long Drop, PWA
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.
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…
Hope for A New Tomorrow: Families with AIDS, The Third Decade
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Work Your Body: Options for People Who are HIV-Positive
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. 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…
Fighting for Our Lives: Women and AIDS
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Viva Eu (Long Live Me)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, and then monograph, "AIDS TV." This was an important intervention at the time bringing a Latina voice and perspective to American AIDS video activism.
Native Americans Two Spirits & HIV
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
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,…
Tags: 1991, activist video, AIDS, collective, Diva TV, revolutionary, Target Bush
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.
Tags: 1993, activist video, AIDS, Gregg Bordowitz, It is What It is, 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.
Tags: 1991, activist video, AIDS, documentary, Gregg Bordowitz, PWA, Thinking About Death
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…
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,…
Target City Hall & Pride
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV. Made by DIVA TV, an activist collective working inside of ACT UP, that made a critical body of AIDS activist video. Many of the people represented in this collection were in…
(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…
Plagued Series Compile (Episodes 3 & 4)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Living With A Legacy (Teens With HIV)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
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…
Tags: 1989, AIDS, Latin/x, Lourdes Portillo, safe sex, Vida, woman filmmaker
Living Proof
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Tags: 1994, activist video, AIDS, Kermit Cole, Living Proof, PWAs
Kecia: Words to Live By; Pediatric Aids: A Time of Crisis
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.
Safe is Desire
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…
Tags: 1993, AIDS, Debi Sundahl, lesbian, Nan Kinney, safe AIDS, Safe is Desire, safe sex, sexuality, woman filmmaker
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…
Tags: 1989, AIDS, Clips, Debi Sundahl, lesbian, Nan Kinney, safe sex, sexuality, woman filmmaker
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…
AIDS is About Secrets
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, "AIDS TV."
Plagued Series Compilation (Epis. 1 & 2)
Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV from distributor.